STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3144

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1771

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1771, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FELONIES FOR WHICH CRIMINAL CHARGES MAY BE INSTITUTED BY WRITTEN INFORMATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to add habitual property crime, unauthorized entry in a dwelling in the first or second degree, and theft of copper to the list of felonies for which criminal charges may be instituted by written information.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Community Alliance on Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, and five private individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that as new criminal laws have been passed or amended, the written information law has not been amended accordingly to include those new or amended laws.  As such, this measure adds certain felonies that are comparable to the felonies listed in the existing written information law.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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. 1771, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1771, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair