Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to specify the procedures and conditions under which information charging may serve as a third charging method for the prosecution of certain felonies.

The Department of the Attorney General, Hawaii Law Enforcement Coalition, Honolulu Police Department, City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Hawaii Tourism Authority, Waikiki Improvement Association, and Retail Merchants of Hawaii testified in support of this measure. The Judiciary offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.