Report Title:

False Reporting

Description:

Clarifies that the crime of false reporting to law-enforcement authorities includes giving false identification and information to the authorities during the investigation of any motor vehicle accident.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	998
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 710-1015, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§710-1015  False reporting to law-enforcement authorities.  (1)  A person commits the offense of false reporting to law- enforcement authorities if the person intentionally makes a report or causes the transmission of a report to law-enforcement authorities relating to a crime or other incident within their concern when the person knows that the information contained in the report is false.

(2)  A person who provides false identification and information to law-enforcement authorities during the investigation of a motor vehicle accident is conclusively presumed to have intentionally made a report or caused the transmission of a report to law-enforcement authorities relating to a crime or other incident within their concern when the person knows that the information contained in the report is false.

     [(2)] (3)  False reporting to law-enforcement authorities is a misdemeanor."

     SECTION 2.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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