STAND. COM. REP. NO. 85

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 782

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 782 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make it unlawful for any person to construct, set off, ignite, discharge, or otherwise cause to explode any homemade explosive device and establishes the knowing or intentional constructing, setting off, igniting, discharging, or otherwise causing an explosion of a homemade explosive device as a class C felony.

     Your Committee finds that homemade explosive devices are inherently dangerous to life and limb.  Your Committee believes that homemade explosive devices serve no legitimate purpose other than to cause harm and injury.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 782, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 782, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair