Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1255 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide for expungement of a minor's record of specific arrest upon an order issued by the family court.

The Judiciary, the Attorney General, Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, the Police Department for the County of Maui, the Honolulu Police Department, and the Juvenile Justice Information Committee provided testimony in favor of the measure. The Office of Youth Services (Dept. of Human Services) testified in support of the intent. The Office of the Public Defender commented.

Your Committee finds that under certain conditions a minor's record of arrest should be subject to expungement. Furthermore, after receiving testimony from various interested parties a consensus has been reached in expanding the scope of arrest records that would be considered for expungement by order of the family court.

Your Committee amended the bill by:

(1) Clarifying the definition of "arrest record";

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. 1255, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1255, H.D. 1,and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.