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 S.B. No. 2259, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make technical housekeeping amendments to section 806-83, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to felonies for which criminal charges may be instituted by written information.

The Department of the Attorney General and the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai supported this bill. The Office of the Public Defender opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 S.B. No. 2259, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2259, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.