STAND. COM. REP. NO. 371

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1485
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1485 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISTRICT COURT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement
that there be a complaint or indictment in the District Court
when a defendant is charged with certain offenses.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, City and County of
Honolulu.

     Your Committee finds that it is neither required nor the
practice to charge a defendant through a complaint or indictment
for cases solely under District Court jurisdiction.  Your
Committee believes that no complaint or indictment should be
necessary in District Court when there is concurrent jurisdiction
between the District, Circuit, and Family Courts over certain
offenses which had previously been under the exclusive
jurisdiction of Family Court.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 1485 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.


 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Human Services
                                   and Housing,



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                                   DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair