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 S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this 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 (Act 190).

The Department of the Attorney General, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu Police Department, Office of the Public Defender, Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii Reserves, Inc., and the Waikiki Improvement Association testified in support of this bill. The American Civil Liberties Union, Hawaii Chapter, opposed this measure. 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 this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and clarity.

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. 2861, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2861,

S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.