Bill Text: HI HB840 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Information Charging; Charging of Criminal Offenses
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-05-17 - (H) Act 114, on 5/17/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 328). [HB840 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB840-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 496-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: H.B. No. 840
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. 840 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHARGING BY WRITTEN INFORMATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to allow more efficient prosecution of crimes by adding unauthorized entry in a dwelling, unauthorized possession of confidential personal information, and methamphetamine trafficking in the second degree to the list of offenses which may be charged by written information.
The Attorney General, Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Honolulu Police Department, and Hawaii Police Department testified in support of this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the effective date to December 21, 2058, 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. 840, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 840, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair |
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