STAND. COM. REP. NO.  45

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 147

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 147 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SIMULATED FIREARMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure to improve public safety by expanding the offenses of terroristic threatening in the first degree and robbery in the first degree to include the use of a simulated firearm.

 

     The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu and the Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this measure.  The Office of the Public Defender and one concerned citizen testified in opposition to this bill.  The Hawaii Rifle Association and two concerned citizens provided comments.

 

     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. 147 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair