Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2307 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the definition of "photographs" to include electronic or digital pictures for the purposes of Hawaii's Rules of Evidence.

Your Committee finds that with advances in photographic technology, electronic or digital photography has become as prevalent and at least as accurate as film photography.

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. 2307 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.