STAND. COM. REP. NO.  2064

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2019

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 175

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 175, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN TO MAINTAIN A DATABASE ON SEX TRAFFICKING OFFENSES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the State Commission on the Status of Women to maintain a database on sex trafficking offenses.

 

     The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, O'ahu County Democrats Legislative Priorities Committee, and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  HARM Reduction Hawaii, Amnesty International Hawaii Chapter, and one individual testified in opposition to this measure.  Community Alliance on Prisons offered comments on this measure.

 

Your committee amended this measure by:

 

(1) Removing lines 1-3 on page 2;

 

(2) Replacing State Commission on the Status of Women with the State of Hawaii Department of the Attorney General to maintain a database on sex trafficking offenses.

 

(3) Replaced State Commission on the Status of Women with the State of Hawaii Department of the Attorney General in the rest of the report to make it consistent with amendment (2).

 

(4) Amending paragraph 5, on page 2, section 3,as follows:

 

"(3)Total number of arrests, prosecutions, and convictions under sections 712-1202, Hawaii Revised Statutes."

 

(5) Amending paragraph 3, on page 2, at line 7 through line 12 as follows:

 

     "BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2019, the Senate concurring, that the State of Hawaii Department of the Attorney General is requested to maintain a database on sex trafficking offenses, which include offenses under section 712-1202 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes; and"

 

(6) Amending the title of this measure to:

 

"REQUESTING THE STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO MAINTAIN A DATABASE ON SEX TRAFFICKING OFFENSES."  

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 175, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 175, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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CHRIS LEE, Chair