STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1146-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2916

      S.D. 1

      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 Public Safety, to which was referred S.B. No. 2916, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase public safety by adding misdemeanor offenses involving any type of firearm, ammunition, or dangerous weapon under chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the offenses that disqualify parolee violators from provisions that, among other things, limit the revocation period of incarceration to no longer than six months.  

The Department of Public Safety and the Hawaii Paroling Authority supported this measure.  Community Alliance on Prisons and several concerned individuals opposed this measure.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to take effect upon its approval.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2916, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2916, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair