STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1090-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2359

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. 2359, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Specify the areas in a public housing project, elder or elderly housing, or state low-income housing project that are closed to the public; and

(2) Clarify that a person commits criminal trespass in the second degree if the person enters or remains:

(A) Unlawfully in areas of a housing project that are closed to the public; or

(B) In violation of a written warning or request to leave the housing project.

The Department of the Attorney General and Hawaii Public Housing Authority testified in support of this measure.

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. 2359, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair