STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1463

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   S.B. No. 782

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 782, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DANGEROUS WEAPONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish that any person who knowingly or intentionally possesses, constructs, sets off, ignites, discharges, or explodes any homemade explosive device that is capable of instantaneously releasing a sufficient amount of energy to inflict substantial damage to persons or property shall be guilty of a class C felony.

     The State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, County of Maui Department of Fire and Public Safety, and Kauai Fire Department testified in support of this measure.  The Office of the Public Defender provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure 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 S.B. No. 782, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 782, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

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

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair