Bill Text: HI HB947 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Safety

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-12 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Belatti, Cachola, Coffman, Takai excused (4). [HB947 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB947-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  296

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 947

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 947 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase efficiency in the Hawaii Paroling Authority at parole hearings, specify conditions for time served for parole violations, and make a technical revision to Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012 by:

 

     (1)  Defining the number of members necessary for the Hawaii Paroling Authority to make decisions at a parole hearing;

 

     (2)  Clarifying that a parole violator who is charged with a new felony misdemeanor offense involving firearms and dangerous weapons as defined under chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes, will not be limited to a six-month revocation period of incarceration;

 

     (3)  Specifying that credit be given for time served in custody for a parole violation when a prisoner is arrested outside the State on a parole warrant; and

 

     (4)  Fixing an error in the repeal date of Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012.

 

     The Department of Public Safety and Hawaii Paroling Authority supported this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 947 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

		____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair