THE SENATE

THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2021

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Senator Karl Rhoads, Chair

Senator Jarrett Keohokalole, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Friday, March 19, 2021

TIME:

9:30 a.m.

PLACE:

Via Videoconference

 

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A G E N D A

 

HB 490, HD2

      (HSCR900)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CRIMES AGAINST SENIORS.

Lowers the age at which enhanced penalties apply for crimes against seniors from sixty-two years of age to sixty years of age.  Makes commission of certain criminal offenses against a senior's person or property applicable if the perpetrator knows or reasonably should know the senior victim's age.  Effective 7/1/3021.  (HD2)

 

JDC

HB 566, HD1

      (HSCR764)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ABUSE OF FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS.

Adds coercive control between family or household members to the offense of abuse of family or household members as a petty misdemeanor.  Effective 7/1/3021.  (HD1)

 

JDC

HB 891, HD2

      (HSCR882)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTRIC GUNS.

Regulates the sale and use of electric guns and cartridges.  Effective 7/1/3021.  (HD2)

 

JDC

HB 895

      (HSCR772)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CREDIT FOR TIME OF DETENTION PRIOR TO SENTENCE.

Clarifies that defendants may not earn credit on a sentence imposed for a subsequent conviction for time being served on a previous felony conviction

 

JDC

HB 1107, HD1

      (HSCR754)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO COMPUTER CRIME.

Adds aggravated harassment by stalking to the list of offenses upon which the offense of use of a computer in the commission of a separate crime may be based.  Provides the court with the discretion to require the forfeiture of property used in computer crimes if the perpetrator was a minor, regardless of whether the minor owned the property.  (HD1)

 

JDC

HB 1326, HD1

      (HSCR758)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

Allows a narrow hearsay exception for statements made by domestic violence victims during the course of the first interaction with the responding law enforcement officers and before the arrest of the defendant, as long as the statement bears sufficient indicia of reliability.  Effective 7/1/3021.  (HD1)

 

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Senator Karl Rhoads

Chair