Report Title:

False Identification

 

Description:

Creates a class C felony offense for the manufacture or sale of false identification to a person under the age of 21.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

786

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 709, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§709- Trafficking in fraudulent identification; manufacture and sales. (1) A person commits the offense of trafficking in fraudulent identification if the person intentionally or knowingly manufactures or sells, to a person under twenty-one years of age, an identification card or other form of identification, whether tangible or intangible, that appears to be, but is not, an official form of identification issued by the government of a State, the United States, or another nation.

(2) Trafficking in fraudulent identification is a class C felony."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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