Report Title:

Crimes; Aggravated Criminal Property Damage

Description:

Eliminates the requirement that a conviction have occurred within the 5 years preceding the current offense to be considered a prior offense for purpose of aggravated criminal property damage.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	683
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to property damage.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 708-823.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (1) to read as follows:

     "(1)  A person commits the offense of aggravated criminal property damage if the person by means other than fire:

    (a)   Intentionally damages the property of another without the other's consent; and

    (b)   Has been convicted two or more times of an offense under section 708-822 or 708-823 [in the preceding five years]."

     SECTION 2.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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