STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2004

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2114

       S.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 Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2114 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CLASS C FELONIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the penalty from $1,000 to $10,000 for a person providing false information on a voter registration application during the late registration period or at an absentee polling place.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Elections; Office of the County Clerk, County of Maui; Common Cause Hawaii; and League of Women Voters of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that providing false information on a voter registration application during the late registration period or at an absentee polling place is a class C felony with a penalty of $1,000.  Existing law provides that a person convicted of a class C felony may be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed $10,000.  This measure increases the penalty for providing false information to be consistent with the maximum penalty for a class C felony.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2114, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2114, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair