STAND. COM. REP. NO. 555
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 910
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 910 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Requiring public agencies with a defendant's medical, mental health, social, police and juvenile records to release information to the court when the defendant is ordered to submit to a forensic mental health examination in order to expedite the process; and
(2) Amending penal code provisions to establish limits to the length of time an individual may remain on conditional relief for certain criminal charges and to clarify circumstances under which the conditional release may be tolled.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the tolling provisions apply only to defendants charged with petty misdemeanors, misdemeanors, or violations;
(2) Specifying that the tolling period shall apply during a period of forensic hospitalization and during the pendency of a motion to revoke conditional release; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 910, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 910, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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