STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1364
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: S.B. No. 211
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 211, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting the negligent refusal or failure to provide specimens from the offense of refusal or failure to provide specimen for forensic identification;
(2) Making it a misdemeanor, rather than a class C felony, to intentionally or knowingly refuse or fail to provide specimen for forensic identification;
(3) Downgrading reckless refusal or failure to provide specimen for forensic identification to a petty misdemeanor; and
(4) Changing its effective date to take effect upon approval.
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 S.B. No. 211, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 211, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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