STAND. COM. REP. NO.  387-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2998

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2998 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to establish the Adam Walsh Act compliance working group to determine, among other things, the laws that need to be amended and new laws that need to be enacted to comply with the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Public Safety Act of 2006.

 

     The Department of Public Safety supported the intent of this bill.  The Attorney General, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Maui County Police Department, and the Honolulu Police Department opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2998, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2998, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair