STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1553

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1260

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1260, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SENTENCING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to restore the statutory provision allowing pre-sentence mental and medical examinations of defendants for the purposes of sentencing.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the bill from the Attorney General's Office and from the Honolulu Prosecutor's Office. 

 

     In 2005, the statutory provision was inadvertently repealed as part of the revisions to section 706-603 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.  This bill restores that provision and allows for the pre-sentence mental or medical examination of defendants as part of the Judiciary pre-sentence investigation process.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report,


your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1260, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair