STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1620
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 1763
H.D. 2
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1763, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to ensure the continued force and effectiveness of the Hawaii Penal Code (Code) by establishing and appropriating funds for an advisory committee to conduct a comprehensive review of the Code.
This bill would also require the advisory committee to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature prior to the convening of the 2006 Regular Session.
Your Committee finds that it has been ten years since a comprehensive review of the Code was last conducted and that the Legislature failed to act on the recommendations produced by that review. Your Committee further finds that this measure is designed to address inconsistencies, ambiguities, and errors within the Code that were apparent in 1995 and may have multiplied since that time.
Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion of the issues raised.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1763, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1763, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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