Bill Text: HI HB136 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Graffiti Eradication Sentencing Program; Judiciary

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB136 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB136-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  368

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 136

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 136 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GRAFFITI,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow graffiti offenders to discharge a community service sentence by:

 

     (1)  Establishing a Graffiti Eradication Sentencing Program (Program) within the Judiciary;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Judiciary to submit an annual report to the Legislature; and

 

     (3)  Appropriating funds for the Program.

 

     The Judiciary offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2046, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 136, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 136, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair