STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1485-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 120

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

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.C.R. No. 120 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO CONVENE A TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE NEED FOR STATE LEGISLATION ON INNOCENCE REDRESS TO PROVIDE COMPENSATION AND SERVICES TO PERSONS WHO CAN DEMONSTRATE THEY WERE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED OF A CRIME AND IMPRISONED,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this resolution is to request the Attorney General to convene a task force to study the need for possible legislation with applicable redress for persons wrongfully convicted and imprisoned.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Community Alliance on Prisons, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii supported this resolution.  The Department of the Attorney General commented upon this resolution.

 

     Your Committee has amended this resolution by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of 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 concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 120, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 120, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair