Bill Text: HI SB2249 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water Safety Officer; Assault

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-16 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB2249 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2249-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  691-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2249

      S.D. 1

      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 Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 2249, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect water safety officers from being physically attacked while performing their duties.  This bill makes it a class C felony for assaulting water safety officers.

 

     Three concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Emergency Services Department and the Ocean Safety and Lifeguard Services Division of the City and County of Honolulu, and the Hawaiian Lifeguard Association supported the intent of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2249, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2249, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

		____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair