STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2672

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3080

       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. 3080 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THEFT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish the offense of theft of urn as a class C felony.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will help to prevent persons from stealing urns from cemeteries.  Your Committee notes the testimony that indicates that a person may steal an urn for the urn's metal redemption value and suggests adding language to prohibit the sale of urns to metal recyclers and establish penalties against the metal recyclers who accept and pay for urns.  However, your Committee has concerns that amending this measure to add metal recycling prohibitions may not fit within its title, relating to theft.

     Accordingly, 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. 3080, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3080, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair