STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1702

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1485
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 1485, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MINORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Permit the court to waive jurisdiction of other felony
          charges arising from the same episode to which the
          minor was waived;

     (2)  Authorize the court to provide for public inspection of
          a minor's legal records if the proceeding or case
          involves an act resulting in the death of a victim; and

     (3)  Establish a process for expungement of records for
          minors taken into custody but not adjudicated.

     Your Committee received testimony in favor of this bill from
the Judiciary, the Attorney General, the Department of Human
Services, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City
and County of Honolulu, the Public Defender and concerned
individuals.

     Your Committee, balancing the concerns for the protection of
minors involved in the judicial process and the concerns for
important social policy, finds that:

 
 
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     (1)  Judicial economy will be served by permitting the court
          to waive jurisdiction of other felony charges arising
          from the same episode to which the minor was waived;
          and

     (2)  The right of public access to important information on
          serious matters will be served by allowing the court to
          provide for public inspection of a minor's legal
          records if the proceeding or case involves an act
          resulting in the death of a victim.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting the provisions relating to the expungement of
          records for minors taken into custody but not
          adjudicated;

     (2)  Deleting the effective date; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1485, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1485, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the
calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair