STAND. COM. REP. NO. 819-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2842

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2842, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHAPTER 846E, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide greater protection to children by requiring child pornographers to register as sex offenders with the chief of police of the county where the sex offender resides or is present.

This bill also:

(1) Redrafts the penalty provisions of the sex offender registration law (chapter 846E, Hawaii Revised Statutes) to conform to the drafting conventions of the Model Penal Code; and

(2) Makes nonsubstantive "housekeeping" amendments to the chapter.

The Department of the Attorney General (AG), City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Hawaii Police Department, Hawaii Family Forum, and the Sex Abuse Treatment Center testified in support of this measure. The Office of the Public Defender offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Requiring that an actual address be used rather than only the street name and zip code when sex offenders register with the AG; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct drafting errors.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2842, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2842, 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 and Military Affairs,

 

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KEN ITO, Chair