Bill Text: HI HB2244 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Trespassing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-26 - Referred to JHA, referral sheet 3 [HB2244 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2244-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO TRESPASSING.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 708-813, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (4) to read as follows:
"(4) Criminal trespass in the first degree [is]
shall be a misdemeanor[.]; provided that if the court deems
the offense to be egregious or repeated, the offender, in the court's
discretion, may be subject to prosecution for a class C felony."
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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Report Title:
Penal Code; Criminal Trespass; Penalty
Description:
Authorizes the court to elevate the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree from a misdemeanor to a class C felony if the court deems the trespassing to be egregious or repeated.
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