Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1150 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the sentence for murder or attempted murder of an on-duty police officer to run consecutively to any sentence imposed at the same time for other offenses.

The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers and a private citizen submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Office of the Public Defender and a private citizen submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee finds that our police officers risk their lives every day to protect the public safety of all residents. In order to deter violent acts against police officers, this bill will ensure that an act of murder or attempted murder against a police officer results in serious consequences.

Your Committee recommends that this bill, upon passage, be named after slain officer Glen A. Gaspar, who was killed in the line of duty while protecting Hawaii's citizens. Your Committee recommends, with approval of the family of Glen A. Gaspar, that this bill be entitled, "The Gaspar Act."

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1150 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.