STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1274-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2569

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2569, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY COURT OUTREACH PROJECT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address the nonviolent offenses that overburden the court system and the recidivism of these offenders by establishing a community court outreach project in the City and County of Honolulu to offer combined accountability and treatment options to offenders through a mobile justice system administered by the Judiciary.  

 

     The Judiciary, Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, Department of Public Safety, Office of the Public Defender, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney City and County of Honolulu, and an individual supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Removing the provisions that plea agreements for defendants shall not include imprisonment and that the mobile court shall not hear a case when a plea agreement proposes any imprisonment;

 

(2)  Clarifying that the mobile court travel to communities where defendants live or congregate; and

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2569, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2569, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair