HB2201 HD1 HSCR304-02

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.304-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2201

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2201 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to require criminal defendants who, as civil plaintiffs, are awarded money from tort claims arising out of their own criminal conduct, to make restitution to the crime victim or to the Crime Victim Compensation Fund.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Crime Victim Compensation Commission.

Your Committee finds that criminal defendants should not profit by filing civil suits for claims arising out of their criminal misconduct.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Correcting the name "criminal injuries compensation fund" to "crime victim compensation special fund"; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2201, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2201, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

		____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair