STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1193

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 880

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 880, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A MINOR UNDER THE AGE OF TWELVE YEARS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect the children in the State by requiring the court to impose a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment without the possibility of parole or probation for a person convicted of certain acts of sexual assault against a minor under the age of twelve years.

 

     The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu Police Department, and The Sex Abuse Treatment Center supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 S.B. No. 880, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 880, 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 Public Safety,

 

 

		____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair