STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1036

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1484

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1484, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ASSAULT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to broaden the offense of assault in the second degree to include a person who intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to a person employed as a health care professional as defined in section 451D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

The Honolulu Police Department, Hawaii Pacific Health, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and The Queen's Health Systems testified in support of this measure.  The Office of the Public Defender opposed this measure.  The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying the offense of assault in the second degree to specify that it applies to a person who intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to a health care professional engaged in the performance of duty at the time of the assault.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1484, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1484, H.D. 2.

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

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair