STAND. COM. REP. NO.  701-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 1758

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1758 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THEFT IN THE SECOND DEGREE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the threshold value of property and services for the offense of theft in the second degree from $300 to $1,000.

     The Office of the Public Defender supported this bill.  The Attorney General, Honolulu Police Department, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Maui, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, and the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Hawaii opposed this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 1758, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1758, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair