STAND. COM. REP. NO.  913

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1328

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1328, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SENTENCING OF REPEAT OFFENDERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to deter insurance fraud by including felony insurance fraud relating to workers' compensation, accident and health or sickness, and motor vehicle insurance, as well as relating to such insurance provided by mutual benefit societies and health maintenance organizations, among the offenses subject to repeat felony offender sentencing.

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Attorney General supported this bill.  The Office of the Public Defender opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to January 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     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. 1328, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1328, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair