STAND. COM. REP. NO. 820

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1319

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1319 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION PROCESSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that the Attorney General's identification system include criminal cases initiated via citations that resulted in a conviction, deferred acceptance of guilty or nolo contendere plea, or conditional discharge, and that a court order identification processing in such cases.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and Honolulu Police Department.

Your Committee finds that the State's courts, law enforcement agencies, and other entities within the criminal justice system routinely use and rely upon information collected by the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to provide complete and accurate criminal history record information. Existing law requires and authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to collect the criminal history record information in cases initiated by arrest or penal summons, but does not account for any convictions from misdemeanor, petty misdemeanor, or violation level cases that were initiated by citation. As a result, none of those convictions have ever been included in the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center's data, and the courts and other authorized entities have unintentionally been operating based on an incomplete criminal history for many individuals. This measure will ensure that all convictions and sentences handed down by the State's court system are accurately processed and recorded by the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, thereby enhancing the accuracy and reliability of the State's criminal history record information.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

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 S.B. No. 1319, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1319, S.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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KARL RHOADS, Chair