STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3007

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2315

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2315 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE COLLECTION KITS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend the deadline for each county police department to adopt and utilize an electronic tracking system for sexual assault evidence collection kits.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General; City and County of Honolulu, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney; Honolulu Police Department; County of Hawaii, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney; and Sex Abuse Treatment Center.

 

     Your Committee finds that Act 113, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, required each county police department to establish an electronic tracking system for sexual assault evidence collection kits no later than January 1, 2020.  Your Committee further finds that the county police departments, in coordination with the Hawaii Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, have been working with the Portland Police Department to implement the sexual assault management system (SAMS) developed by the Portland Police Department; however, due to various operational and technical issues, implementation of SAMS has not yet been possible.  The police departments are now working with the Department of the Attorney General and the Portland Police Department to utilize SAMS-Track, a simplified version of SAMS.  Therefore, a one year extension of the January 1, 2020, deadline is necessary for this purpose.

 

     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. 2315 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair