STAND. COM. REP. NO.  557

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1458

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1458 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to expand the offense of escape in the second degree to include persons who fail to present themselves to a correctional or detention facility at the time ordered by a court of law.

 

     Your Committee received testimony from the Department of Public Safety in support of this measure.  The National Association of Reformed Criminals submitted testimony expressing its opposition to the measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that, currently, a person who fails to report to a correctional or detention facility may be charged only with contempt of court, which is a misdemeanor.  This measure addresses this important public safety issue making it a class C felony offense of escape in the second degree if a person fails to comply with a court's directive to report to a correctional or detention facility.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1458 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair