Bill Text: HI HB1025 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Sentencing

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1025 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1025-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  822

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1025

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1025, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SENTENCING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to restore an inadvertently repealed statutory provision allowing for a presentence mental or medical examination of a defendant as part of the presentence investigation process.

 

     The Judiciary and the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Attorney General and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu provided comments. 

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1025, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair