STAND. COM. REP. NO. 999-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2243

S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2243, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow a person acquitted of a crime because of a physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect excluding responsibility to request a DNA analysis of evidence that resulted in the acquittal.

The measure also extends the requirement of immediate testing or analyses for purposes of law enforcement identification to all incarcerated felons and provides the Department of Attorney General with more flexibility with respect to the administration of test and analysis results.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and the Honolulu Police Department.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2243, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

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KEN ITO, Chair