STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2491

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3079
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
3079 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS IN THE
     FIRST DEGREE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal the pre-arrest
requirement that school authorities and police officers first
warn or request a person to leave the school premises, if the
person enters or remains unlawfully in or on the school premises.

     Your Committee finds that in order to ensure students a safe
school environment, school authorities and police officers must
have supporting laws to make their jobs well defined.  One of the
problems of dealing with criminal trespassers on school grounds
has been the requirement that the trespasser be first warned and
requested to leave the premises before an arrest can be made.
Your Committee finds that the instant measure, by repealing the
pre-arrest requirement and by also making criminal trespass
applicable to all academic and noncollege schools maintained by
the department of education, will help make school grounds safer
for our students so they are able to concentrate on their work.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
3079 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



                                   ______________________________
                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair


 
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