Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 3256, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make technical and substantive changes to Hawaii Penal Code chapters 704, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, and 712.

Your Committee finds that all parties testifying on this measure indicated that the recommendations originally submitted to the Legislature were a collaborative effort. Everyone submitting testimony complimented the work of the Committee to Conduct a Comprehensive Review of the Hawaii Penal Code and Judge Steve Alm's leadership as the chair of the Committee.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Attorney General, the Crime Victim Compensation Commission, the Disability and Communication Access Board, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Kauai, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Maui, the Honolulu Police Department, the Hawaii Disability Rights Center, the Sex Abuse Treatment Center, and the Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The Office of the Public Defender submitted comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure to restore it to the original version to reflect the recommendations of the Committee to Conduct a Comprehensive Review of the Hawaii Penal Code, and to make technical changes for conformance and stylistic purposes.

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. 3256, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3256, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.