STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3138

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1516

       H.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1516, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ASSESSMENT OF THE INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN FEE AGAINST CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) fee shall be assessed against every defendant who is convicted of a misdemeanor or felony regardless of the nature of the offense, except when the court determines the defendant is unable to pay the fee, and move the statute establishing the ICAC fee to a more appropriate chapter of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Department of the Attorney General and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that this measure clarifies the law relating to the ICAC fee, making clear that the fee is not intended to be imposed only in cases involving internet crimes against children.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1516, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair