STAND. COM. REP. NO. 881

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1343

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1343 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide greater protections to victims of domestic violence who the court and the police are attempting to keep safe through family court domestic abuse protective orders and police orders upon family or household members to leave the premises.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the bill from the Attorney General's Office, the Prosecutor's Offices from Honolulu, Maui, and Hawaii, the Honolulu Police Department, the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers, the Domestic Violence Clearinghouse, and a private citizen/victim.  The Public Defender's Office opposed the bill.

     Your Committee amended the bill by removing references to murder by deleting sections 2 and 3 of the bill.  Your Committee further amended the bill by removing reckless assault.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1343, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1343, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair