COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Rep. Eric G. Hamakawa, Chair

Rep. Blake K. Oshiro, Vice Chair

(SSCR595)

Prohibits printing a voter's social security number in an election poll book.

JUD

(SSCR974)

Limits aggregate contributions by any person or entity to not more than $25,000 in any calendar year; allows expenditures from campaign funds for charitable purposes; repeals requirement that contributions from separate entities be treated as a contribution from a single entity if one entity finances or controls the activities of another contributing entity; prohibits and defines bundling; treats a corporation and any person owning at least a 35% interest in the corporation as a single person for purposes of applying campaign spending laws; prohibits government contractors from contributing to candidates or candidate's committees; requires that qualifying contributions to receive public funds come from individual Hawaii residents; repeals limits on number of fundraisers; allows unlimited contributions through separate segregated funds; punishes intentional falsification of a required report as a Class C felony. (SD1)

JUD

(SSCR651)

Exempts state officials from multiple ethics disclosure filing requirements during a calendar year if the official's financial position has not changed since the date of the previous filing. (SD1)

JUD

(SSCR699)

Establishes a problem solving courts special fund for various treatment programs as directed by the chief justice of the judiciary. Directs $ in fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 from uncontested fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties for traffic infractions to the judiciary computer system special fund, and deposits the excess uncontested fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties for traffic infractions, grants, donations, and other funding sources into the problem solving courts special fund. (SD2)

JUD, FIN

(SSCR836)

Repeals the Hawaii missing children's clearinghouse trust fund; transfers fund balance to the Friends of the Missing Child Center, a private non-profit.

JUD, FIN

(SSCR700)

Increases the mandatory surcharge for parent education from $35 to $50. Repeals the discretionary $15 donation. (SD1)

JUD, FIN

(SSCR594)

Requires the Judicial Council to convene a task force to review criminal charging procedures to recommend legislative amendments.

JUD, FIN

(SSCR698)

Increases the hourly rate of compensation and certain maximum fees for court appointed counsel to correspond with federal rates. (SB611 SD1)

JUD, FIN

(SSCR593)

Amends hate crime laws to apply to a defendant who intentionally selects a victim or property of a person because of hostility toward the person's actual or perceived gender identity or expression.

JUD

(SSCR979)

Makes the offense of assaults against law enforcement officers engaged in the performance of duty a class C felony.

JUD

(SSCR978)

Changes the extreme mental or emotional disturbance defense from a standard defense to an affirmative defense.

JUD

(SSCR27)

Eliminates distinction between non-domestic abuse and domestic abuse for purposes of sentencing persons convicted for violating an order for protection.

JUD

(SSCR26)

Requires the court to set forth conditions, limitations, and prohibitions for transference of a firearm by a person named in a protective order. (SD1)

JUD

(SSCR25)

JUD

Chair