STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3035

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2080

       H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Technology and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2080, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THEFT OF PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish theft of any computer that may be used to store or retrieve personal information as theft in the second degree.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu and seven individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that thieves often target computers and other electronic devices to gain access to private and financial information that can cause great damage to an individual.  This measure broadens the offense of theft in the second degree to include theft of any computer capable of storing or retrieving personal information.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Technology and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2080, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Technology and the Arts,

 

 

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair