STAND. COM. REP. NO.  154-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2318

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 2318 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECORDS FOR FORENSIC EXAMINATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expedite the process with respect to forensic evaluations of defendants when there is a concern about penal responsibility or fitness to proceed by requiring public agencies to share with the Judiciary, information pertaining to defendants for whom forensic examinations are ordered by a court so that information, regardless of other laws, can be given in a timely manner to forensic examiners.

The Department of Health and Department of Public Safety supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2318 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Health.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair