Bill Text: HI SB777 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Felony; Impersonation of a Law Enforcement Officer

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-14 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. [SB777 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB777-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 296

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 777

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 777 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE IMPERSONATION OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to specify additional acts that constitute the offense of impersonation of a law enforcement officer.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Police Department, City and County of Honolulu; and Hawaii Rifle Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that the expansion of the offense of impersonating a law enforcement officer to include violent or harmful acts will improve the public safety of our communities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the offense of impersonating a law enforcement officer in the first degree requires the perpetrator to pretend to be a law enforcement officer, be armed with a firearm, and threaten violence to another by an immediate show of force, threaten or attempt to confiscate or damage property of another, or threaten or attempt to exercise dominion or control over another;

 

     (2)  Deleting subsection (b), which would have included intentionally or knowingly causing another person to apprehend a harmful or offensive contact under the offense of impersonating a law enforcement officer in the first degree;

 

     (3)  Inserting a savings clause; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 777, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 777, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair