Report Title:

Sex Offender Registration; Homeless Offenders

Description:

Requires person subject to sex offender registration law who has no place of residence to verify the offender's registration information every 90 days.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1892
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to sex offender registration.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 846E-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§846E-5  Periodic verification of registration information. (a)  Unless the covered offender is incarcerated or has registered with a designated law enforcement agency after establishing residence in another state, on the first day of every ninety-day period following the covered offender's initial registration date:

     (1)  The attorney general shall mail a nonforwardable verification form to the last reported address of the covered offender;

     (2)  The covered offender shall sign the verification form and state that the covered offender still resides at the address last reported to the attorney general and that no other registration information has changed or shall provide the new information;

     (3)  The covered offender shall mail the signed and completed verification form to the attorney general within ten days after receipt of the form; and

     (4)  If the covered offender fails to mail the verification form to the attorney general within ten days after receipt of the form, the covered offender shall be in violation of this chapter, unless the covered offender proves that the covered offender has not changed the residence address.

     [This section shall become effective on July 1, 1998.]

(b)  If the covered offender has no temporary or permanent address at the time of initial registration pursuant to section 846E-2, the offender shall verify, every ninety days, the offender's initial registration information, in person, with the chief of police where the covered offender resides or is present."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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