Bill Text: HI HB622 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Harassment by Stalking; Electronic Communication

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB622 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB622-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  155

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 622

      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. 622 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARASSMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to prevent individuals from being harassed by those using innovative forms of technology by extending the offense of harassment by stalking to include any form of digital communication.

 

     Three individuals testified in support of this bill.  The City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney also supported this bill with amendments.  The Office of the Public Defender offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by broadening the form of technology to include any form of "electronic communication" instead of "digital communication".  As defined in section 711-1111(2), Hawaii Revised Statutes, "electronic communication" means: "…any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic, or photo-optical system."

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments to the bill have also been made for the purposes of style and clarity.

 

     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. 622, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 622, 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