CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 60-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2016

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1578

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sirs:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1578, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THEFT,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

The purpose of this measure is to prevent the theft of cremation urns by:

 

     (1)  Establishing the offense of theft of an urn, which includes obtaining an urn through any means described under the offense of theft under section 708-830, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS); intentionally desecrating a columbarium or an urn under section 711-1107, HRS; or violating the statement requirements of scrap dealers under section 445-233, HRS, as a class C felony; provided that the penalty imposed for the intentional desecration of an urn shall be pursuant to section 711-1107(3), HRS;

 

     (2)  Requiring scrap dealers and persons who sell to scrap dealers to follow the same regulations and provide the same receipts, declarations, and verifications for the purchase of an urn that are required for the purchase of copper or a beer keg; and

 

     (3)  Making the intentional desecration of a columbarium or urn an offense of desecration.

 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing from the elements of a theft of urn the intentional desecration of a columbarium or an urn under section 711-1107, HRS, and its corresponding penalty;

 

     (2)  Deleting the section that makes it an offense of desecration to intentionally desecrate a columbarium or an urn; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1578, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1578, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

 

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Co-Chair

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Co-Chair