HB2685 HSCR201-04

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 201-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2685

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2685 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BAIL JUMPING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to lower the state-of-mind requirement for bail jumping offenses from "intentionally" to "knowingly".

The Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Hawaii provided testimony in support of this measure. The Office of the Public Defender opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure will facilitate convictions for bail jumping.

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. 2685 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair