STAND. COM. REP. NO.  873

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 356

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 356, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD ENDANGERMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure the safety of children by:

 

(1)  Establishing a motor vehicle violation that prohibits leaving a child unsupervised in a motor vehicle; and

 

(2)  Requiring the examiner of drivers to test driver's license applicants for knowledge of this offense.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Kids and Cars, Kids In Cars, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, and Hawaii Family Forum supported this bill.  The Office of the Public Defender opposed this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Removing the provision that a police officer assuming protective custody of a child left unsupervised in a motor vehicle does so pursuant to section 587-22, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS);

 

     (2)  Replacing the citation to section 291C-161(b), HRS, in section 291-  (d), HRS, with the language of the penalties set forth in section 291C-161(b), HRS; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 356, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 356, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair