STAND. COM. REP. NO.1222
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 64
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
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 S.B. No. 64, 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 establish interference with the reporting of an emergency or crime as a petty misdemeanor.
The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for City and County of Honolulu, the Honolulu Police Department, and the Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Office of the Public Defender submitted testimony in opposition of this bill.
Your Committee finds that perpetrators of domestic violence should not prevent victims and witnesses from contacting authorities for assistance in preventing domestic violence.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the offense from preventing the reporting of a crime or an emergency to interference with reporting an emergency or crime;
(2) Limiting the crime of interference with reporting an emergency or crime to instances of intentionally or knowingly preventing an emergency call or reporting a crime by deleting "attempts to prevent";
(3) Lowering the offense to a petty misdemeanor from a misdemeanor; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.
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 S.B. No. 64, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 64, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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