STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1095

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 782

      S.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 782, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DANGEROUS WEAPONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to promote public safety by:

 

     (1)  Prohibiting any person from possessing, constructing, setting off, igniting, discharging, or exploding any homemade explosive device that is capable of instantaneously releasing a sufficient amount of energy to inflict substantial damage to persons or property; and

    

     (2)  Establishing a violation of this prohibition as a class C felony.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 782, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair