STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2309
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2916
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2916 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to include misdemeanor offenses under chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes, involving firearms, ammunition, and dangerous weapons, in the list of offenses that disqualify parolees from the maximum six-month parole revocation period provided for in Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Hawaii Paroling Authority, Hawaii Rifle Association, and one individual.
Your Committee finds that under existing law, certain parole violators will be limited to a six-month revocation period of incarceration. Some parolees are excluded from this provision, including those charged with new felonies and certain misdemeanors. The currently identified misdemeanors do not include firearms and dangerous weapons offenses, which are considered serious violations of parole. Your Committee finds that it is in the public interest to include firearms and weapons offenses in the list of misdemeanors that disqualify parolees from the maximum six-month parole revocation period.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2916 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,
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________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair |
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