Bill Text: HI HB129 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Uniform Child Witness Testimony by Alternative Methods Act

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to JDL. [HB129 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB129-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  716

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 129

      H.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 Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 129 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD WITNESS TESTIMONY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish procedures to permit alternative methods for taking the testimony of a minor child in criminal, non-criminal, and administrative proceedings.

 

     The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, the Honolulu Police Department, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai, and the Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation supported the measure.  The Office of the Public Defender opposed the measure.  The Judiciary offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 129, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 129, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair