Bill Text: HI SB60 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Bill of Rights for Victims; Restorative Justice

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0). [SB60 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB60-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1010

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 60

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 60, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VICTIMS OF CRIMES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support victims of crimes by requiring the police or prosecuting attorney to inform victims of crimes and surviving immediate family members of deceased victims of crimes of their right to participate in restorative justice processes.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Community Alliance on Prisons, and many individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 60, S.D. 1, 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 Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair