STAND. COM. REP. NO. 654-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1845
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 1845 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is create a misdemeanor offense for
interference with the reporting of an emergency or crime.

     The Commission on the Status of Women, the Department of the
Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, the
Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Maui,
Child and Family Service, Domestic Violence Clearinghouse, Hawaii
State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Women Helping Women,
and concerned individuals testified in support of the measure.
 
     The Office of the Public Defender testified in opposition to
the measure.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will address the
common problem of interference with reporting of domestic
violence.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by making technical and
nonsubstantive changes 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

 
 
 
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this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1845, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
1845, 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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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair