Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2386 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to implement the recommendations of the task force convened by the Judicial Council of Hawaii pursuant to Act 190, Session Laws of Hawaii, 2003.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General, the Hawaii Law Enforcement Coalition, the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, the Office of the Public Defender, the County of Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, the Honolulu Police Department, the County of Hawaii Police Department, the Hawaii Tourism Authority, and the Retail Merchants of Hawaii. The Judiciary offered comments.

Your Committee finds that the task force convened pursuant to Act 190 has recommended that information charging for certain class B and class C felonies be authorized and has recommended that the certain charging procedures be implemented.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended the bill by:

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 H.B. No. 2386, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2386, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.