STAND. COM. REP. NO. 445-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1777

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1777 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that defendants may be convicted of lesser included offenses in cases filed via felony complaints.

The City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, and Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

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. 1777, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1777, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair