Bill Text: HI SB843 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Sentencing; Examination

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB843 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB843-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1640

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 843

      S.D. 1

      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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 843, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SENTENCING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to assist the court in rendering appropriate sentences by restoring a statutory provision that allows the court, in its discretion, to order a defendant who has been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor to submit to mental or other medical observation and examination prior to being sentenced.

 

     The Judiciary and Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Department of the Attorney General and Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 843, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair