STAND. COM. REP. NO. 61

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 111

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 111 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the priority of the payment of DNA analysis fees in relation to the payment of other fees that a court may order a defendant who is convicted of a felony offense to pay.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary-Adult Client Services Branch.

 

     Current law is silent as to when the DNA analysis monetary assessment must be paid by a convicted felon into the DNA registry special fund under section 706-603, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  This measure provides for the assessment to be paid as the third order of priority after restitution (first order of priority) and the crime victim compensation fee (second order of priority).  The Judiciary stated that this measure clarifies any confusion on the priority of fees that may be assessed by the courts.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 111 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 


Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair