Bill Text: HI SB2420 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Manslaughter.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-16 - This measure has been deleted from the meeting scheduled on Monday 03-16-20 2:05PM in conference room 325. [SB2420 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-SB2420-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MANSLAUGHTER.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that when an offender chooses to drink to levels of intoxication and recklessly operates a vehicle in a manner that results in the death of another person, the offender has demonstrated reckless rather than negligent behavior, which should result in a charge of manslaughter.
SECTION 2. Section 707-702, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (1) to read as follows:
"(1) A person commits the offense of manslaughter if:
(a) The person recklessly causes the death
of another person; [or]
(b) The person intentionally causes another
person to commit suicide; or
provided that this section shall not apply to actions taken under chapter 327L."
SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Manslaughter; Driving Under the Influence
Description:
Authorizes manslaughter prosecutions of persons who cause the death of another person by recklessly operating a motor vehicle with .08 or more grams of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of breath or .08 or more grams of alcohol per one hundred milliliters or cubic centimeters of blood. (SD1)
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