Bill Text: HI HB1264 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electronic Monitoring; Protective Order Violations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1264 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1264-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  182

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1264

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1264 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRONIC MONITORING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect victims of domestic abuse, where the convicted person knows the location of the victim's residence, place of employment, or school, by authorizing the court to order the convicted person to wear a global positioning satellite tracking device, and if so ordered, requiring the convicted person's location to be immediately transmitted to the victim and police, if the convicted person enters a court-defined geographic exclusion zone.

 

     The Judiciary provided comments on this bill.

 

     Your Committee acknowledges and appreciates the court's reservations with respect to its obligation under the bill, to immediately transmit the location of the convicted person when entering into a court-defined geographic exclusion zone, considering the court's limited resources and difficulties working as a law enforcement agency.
     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Making it discretionary, rather than mandatory, that the      victim and the police be notified when the convicted               person enters a court-defined geographic zone; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to                    encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1264, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1264, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair