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. 649, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to toughen the criminal penalties imposed on individuals who repeatedly commit insurance fraud by including felony insurance fraud offenses among the felony violations that are subject to mandatory minimum sentencing under the criminal repeat offender statute.

The Attorney General and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs testified in support of this measure.

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. 649, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.