STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2706

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2916

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2916 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to include misdemeanor offenses under chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to firearms, ammunition, and dangerous weapons, to the offenses that disqualify retaken and reimprisoned parolees from provisions regarding reincarceration and credit for time served.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and Hawaii Paroling Authority.

 

     Your Committee finds that under existing law, certain parole violators will be limited to a six-month revocation period of incarceration.  Some parolees are excluded from this provision, including those charged with new felonies and certain misdemeanors.  The currently identified misdemeanors do not include firearms and dangerous weapons offenses, which are considered serious violations of parole.  Your Committee further finds that it is in the public interest to include firearms and weapons offenses in the list of misdemeanors that disqualify parolees from the maximum six-month parole revocation period.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2916, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2916, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair