Bill Text: HI HB241 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Promoting Prostitution
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB241 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB241-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 631
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2011
RE: H.B. No. 241
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 241 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROMOTING PROSTITUTION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to combat prostitution and the accompanying criminal activity by increasing the grade of offense for all three degrees of the offense of promoting prostitution.
The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Downtown Neighborhood Board No. 13, EAH Housing, Carmel Partners, and Kukui Kauhale, Inc., testified in support of this bill. The Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery supported the intent of this measure. The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, The Libertarian Party of Hawaii, and National Association of Reformed Criminals opposed this bill. The Office of the Public Defender offered comments.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Restoring the offense of promoting prostitution in the third degree to its current misdemeanor status; and
(2) Changing the effective date to January 7, 2059, to promote further discussion.
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. 241, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 241, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair |
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