Bill Text: HI HB1751 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Communication Service Fraud; Civil Remedies

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1751 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1751-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  677

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1751

      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. 1751 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNICATIONS FRAUD,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to help protect communication service providers by:

 

     (1)  Establishing the offenses of communication service fraud in the first and second degrees; and

 

     (2)  Providing civil remedies for communication service providers.

 

     Oceanic Time Warner Cable and Hawaiian Telcom testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Removing prior convictions under federal law as a basis for repeat offender status;

 

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

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes 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. 1751, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1751, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair