Bill Text: HI HB1791 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Sentencing; Manslaughter

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 292, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1409). [HB1791 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1791-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  731-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1791

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1791 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMICIDE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase highway safety by:

 

     (1)  Requiring driver's license revocations of up to ten

years upon a conviction of manslaughter resulting from

the operation of a motor vehicle;

 

     (2)  Requiring driver's license revocations of up to five

years upon conviction for negligent homicide in either

the first or second degree;

 

     (3)  Making imprisonment of up to two years a discretionary

condition of probation for manslaughter convictions; and

 

     (4)  Clarifying that probation is an available sentence for

manslaughter.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, Honolulu Police Department, Maui Police Department, and Kauai Police Department testified in support of this measure.

 

     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. 1791 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair