Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1709 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create a new class C felony offense of aggravated criminal property damage.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Honolulu Police Department. Testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by the Office of the Public Defender.

This measure creates a new class C felony offense of aggravated criminal property damage which applies to an individual who intentionally damages the property of another and has two or more convictions for criminal property damage in the third or fourth degree within the preceding five years. Your Committee finds that this measure is designed to address the problem of graffiti in the community.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1709, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1709, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.