Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 3253 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to amend the Hawaii Rules of Evidence by establishing that a party is not required to renew an objection or offer of proof to preserve a claim of error for appeal once the court makes a definitive ruling on the record admitting or excluding evidence.

The Judiciary and Office of the Public Defender testified in support of this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3253 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.