STAND. COM. REP. NO. 956

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1733

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1733, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Require DNA testing of all felons;

(2) Provide procedures and duties for the collection and

testing of DNA samples;

(3) Establish a procedure for deletion of DNA profiles for a

person whose underlying conviction has been reversed;

(4) Extend the statute of limitations for felony cases

where DNA evidence has been recovered;

(5) Require retention of evidence that can be used for DNA

analysis;

(6) Establish procedures for post-conviction requests for

analysis of DNA evidence;

(7) Require notice to victims of proceedings and outcomes;

 

(8) Require notice to probation and parole authorities of

outcome adverse to the defendant; and

(9) Appropriate $750,000 to implement the new provisions on

DNA testing.

The Attorney General, Department of Public Safety, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, and the Kuliouou Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board supported this bill. The Honolulu Police Department supported the intent of this measure. The Judiciary provided comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriated sum to $1 to encourage further discussion on this measure; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct drafting style.

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 H.B. No. 1733, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1733, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair