Bill Text: HI HB1756 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Criminal Procedure; Expungement

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-16 - (S) The committee on JGO deferred the measure. [HB1756 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1756-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  540-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1756

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1756 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow for the expungement of convictions for non-violent offenses that are over five years old.

 

     The Office of the Public Defender testified in support of this bill.  The Department of the Attorney General, Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Maui Police Department, and Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Requiring a five year waiting period after the completion of sentencing or probation for the offense to be expunged, whichever is later, before an application for expungement may be filed with the court;

 

     (2)  Removing the provision restricting expungement to non-violent offenses;

 

     (3)  Prohibiting the expungement of a conviction for any crime that is not eligible for a deferred acceptance of a guilty plea or nolo contendere plea;

 

     (4)  Requiring that the court determine that the defendant is not likely to engage in a criminal course of conduct before issuing an expungement order;

 

     (5)  Requiring that the court determine that the ends of justice and the welfare of society do not require that the conviction remain on the applicant's record; and

 

     (6)  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. 1756, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1756, 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