Report Title:

Correctional Facility; Escape

Description:

Expands the charge of escape in the second degree to persons who fail to present themselves to a correctional or detention facility at the date and time as ordered by the court for service of a term of custody or confinement.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1150
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO ESCAPE.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 710-1021, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§710-1021  Escape in the second degree.  (1)  A person commits the offense of escape in the second degree if [the]:

(a) The person intentionally escapes from a correctional or detention facility or from custody [.]; or

(b) The person knowingly fails to present himself or herself to a correctional facility or detention facility by the time and date ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, for the service of a term of custody or confinement ordered by the court.

     (2)  Escape in the second degree is a class C felony."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST