STAND. COM. REP. NO.  775-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2080

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2080, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THEFT OF PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the offense of theft in the second degree to include the theft of computers that may be used to store or retrieve personal information.

The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu testified in support of this measure.  The Office of the Public Defender testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encour age further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     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 H.B. No. 2080, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2080, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair