STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1752-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2218

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2218, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRONIC MONITORING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to protect victims of domestic violence from their abusers by allowing the courts to:

     (1)  Prohibit contact with the victim by establishing court-defined geographic exclusion zones;

     (2)  Require a defendant to wear a global positioning system (GPS) device designed to transmit and record the defendant's location data;

     (3)  Require the protected party and the police be notified when a defendant enters a geographic exclusion zone;

     (4)  Revoke a defendant's probation, and fine a defendant, imprison a defendant or both, if the court finds the defendant entered a geographic exclusion zone; and

     (5)  Require a defendant to pay the monthly costs, or a portion thereof, for monitoring by GPS.

     This bill also appropriates an unspecified amount of funds to pay for GPS devices and associated costs.

     The Domestic Violence Action Center and Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence supported this bill.  The Judiciary provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2218, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2218, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair