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 S.C.R. No. 89 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to convene a task force to examine the issue of changes to the Hawaii Penal Code for the sentencing of repeat offenders.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General (Attorney General) and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu.

During the 2006 Regular Session, a measure was introduced which sought to:

Your Committee finds that these proposed changes to the Hawaii Penal Code may have serious implications and that such significant changes require further in-depth review and examination through a task force study.

Your Committee has amended this measure in accordance with the testimony received from the Attorney General to explicitly state that this resolution does not require the task force to examine Hawaii's three strikes law. The Attorney General wished to make clear that this resolution is not to be used to "backdoor" any additional amendments to the three strikes law.

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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 89, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 89, S.D. 1.