STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1061

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 1344

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1344, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ANGER MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize certain criminal offenders to be sentenced by a court to undergo an assessment and complete either a domestic violence intervention course or anger management counseling, as determined by the domestic violence program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Public Defender, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawai‘i State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Parents And Children Together, and three individuals.

Your Committee finds that this measure would allow service providers to provide more appropriate and targeted courses for a defendant involved in a case with a non-intimate partner and maintain the integrity of discussions about intimate partner conflicts in the domestic violence intervention course setting.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying the requirements for offenders to complete assessments at domestic violence programs and domestic violence intervention or anger management courses;

(2) Changing the effective date to upon approval; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1344, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1344, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair