STAND. COM. REP. NO. 670-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2413
                                     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. 2413 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMPUTER CRIME,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Create offenses of computer fraud, computer damage,
          unauthorized computer access, and use of computer to
          commit a separate crime;

     (2)  Allow for forfeiture of property used in the commission
          of computer crimes;

     (3)  Extend the jurisdiction over defendants committing
          computer crimes to beyond Hawaii;

     (4)  Extend the statute of limitations for computer crimes
          to five years;

     (5)  Amend the definition of extortion to include threats of
          damaging someone's computer; and

     (6)  Repeal the present computer fraud statute and the
          present entry without disruption statute.

     The Department of the Attorney General, the Department of
the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, and

 
 
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the Honolulu Police Department testified in support of the
measure.  The Office of the Public Defender provided comments on
the measure.

     Your Committee finds that computer related crimes are not
adequately addressed by the present statutory scheme and that
this measure can address the problems of fraud and other crimes
encountered by a computer dependant public.

     Your Committee amended the bill by deleting provisions
referring to the use of a computer in the commission of a
separate crime.

     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 H.B. No. 2413, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
2413, 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