STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2085

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2386

       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 Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2386 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALES ADVERTISEMENTS FOR STOLEN PROPERTY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish the offense of advertising the sale of stolen property.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Office of Consumer Protection and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that victims of property theft often find their belongings advertised for sale in various locations such as the Internet.  This measure would criminalize the advertisement of stolen property and would make the advertisement for the sale of such stolen property equivalent to the same grade of offense as theft of the property advertised for sale.  Your Committee further finds that this measure will afford additional protection to consumers by reducing the occurrence of stolen goods being advertised for sale.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2386, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2386, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair