STAND. COM. REP. NO.  752

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1142

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1142 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the offense of criminal trespass onto state Department of Transportation lands when people remain on improved Department of Transportation land when it is closed or otherwise restricted and on or under state highways.  This offense would be considered a petty misdemeanor.

 

     The Department of Transportation and Honolulu Police Department supported this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Community Alliance on Prisons, and a concerned individual opposed this measure.

 

     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. 1142 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair