STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2757

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2092

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2092 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish knowingly making a false statement to a county inspector as a crime within the offense of unsworn falsification to authorities.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, County of Hawaii Planning Department, Hawaii Construction Alliance, Āina Haina Community Association, and eight individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Planning of the County of Maui.

 

     Your Committee finds that the ability of county inspectors to discharge their duty is impaired when persons make false statements to inspectors or are otherwise not forthright with information.  This measure will empower county inspectors to compel truthful responses in the course of the inspectors' investigations by establishing knowingly making a false statement to a county inspector as a misdemeanor offense.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2035, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2092, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2092, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair