STAND. COM. REP. NO.  808-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2242

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2242 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update the offenses of:

(1)  Falsifying business records;

(2)  Obtaining a government-issued identification document under false pretenses;

(3)  Tampering with a government record; and

(4)  Unsworn falsification to authorities,

to capture the use of new technologies and make those offenses applicable to electronic versions of those statements, documents, or records.

The Department of the Attorney General testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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 H.B. No. 2242, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2242, H.D. 1.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair