STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2319

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2384

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 2384 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish theft of certain personal electronic devices that may be used to store or retrieve personal information as theft in the second degree.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that thieves often target computers and other electronic devices to gain access to private and financial information that can cause great damage to an individual.  This measure broadens the offense of theft in the second degree to include theft of certain personal electronic devices.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting all items that, if stolen, would have constituted theft in the second degree under this measure and adding language to establish theft of a computer, as defined in section 708-890, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as theft in the second degree.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Technology and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2384, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2384, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Technology and the Arts,

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair