STAND. COM. REP. NO.  747-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2347

      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. 2347 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO METAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that law enforcement efforts to crack down on metal theft are not hampered by what may seem to be ambiguities in the law by affirming that a scrap dealer can be punished for violations involving either being unlicensed or by failing to keep or falsifying records.

     The Department of the Attorney General, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and the Honolulu Police Department supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2347, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2347, H.D. 1.

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

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair