STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2480

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2429
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2429, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow extended term
sentencing for perpetrators of hate-motivated crimes.  The bill
also provides a mechanism to compile, track, and analyze hate
crimes data in the State.

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii is one of twelve states in
the nation that do not have laws addressing hate-motivated crimes
and is one of only four states that do not participate in
tracking hate crimes data for collection by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.  Your Committee further finds that the State has a
compelling interest in preventing crimes and threats against
persons who are targeted because of hostility to their race,
color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, transgender,
sexual orientation, age, or disability.  Your Committee notes
that the provision for extended term sentencing is consistent
with existing extended term sentencing provisions for categories
of offenders whose crimes pose a particular threat to the
community.

     Your Committee has amended this bill to replace the
reference to "data center" with the more appropriate reference
"attorney general" at line 24 of page 5 and line 2 of page 6.

 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2429, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2429, S.D.
2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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