STAND. COM. REP. NO.  763-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2561

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2561, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to implement recommendations made by the Penal Code Review Committee.  Specifically, this measure amends various chapters of the Hawaii Penal Code and makes conforming amendments to several related statutes outside of the Hawaii Penal Code.

Community Alliance on Prisons provided testimony in support of the measure.  The Department of the Attorney General, Crime Victim Compensation Commission, City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Honolulu Police Department, and the Sex Abuse Treatment Center provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2561, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair