Bill Text: HI SB2056 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Probation; Early Discharge; Compliance Report; Judiciary Package

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-21 - (S) Act 143, 6/20/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245). [SB2056 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2056-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2488

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2056

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2056 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require a defendant's probation officer to provide the court information regarding the defendant's compliance or non-compliance with the probation prior to the court determining whether to grant an early discharge from probation.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary.

 

     Your Committee finds that under existing law, the court may grant early discharge from probation without input from a defendant's probation officer regarding that defendant's compliance with probation terms.  This measure serves as an additional tool for the courts to use in its determination of whether a defendant should be discharged from probation early.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2056 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair