STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2629

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2383

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2383, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY INTO MOTOR VEHICLE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require a mandatory minimum period of imprisonment without possibility of parole for any person who is convicted for and has a prior conviction or prior convictions for unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle in the first degree.

     Your Committee received no written comments on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that the unauthorized entry into motor vehicles is a growing problem in Hawaii and that certain communities in Hawaii have been particularly affected.  Your Committee further finds that imposing a mandatory minimum period of imprisonment for anyone who is convicted for and has a prior conviction or prior convictions for unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle in the first degree, will help to deter repeat offenders.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2383, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2383, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair