H.B. 895 Summary

• Amends Hawaii Revised Statutes section 706-671(3) to clarify that defendants convicted of crimes committed while serving a sentence cannot receive credit for time served on the prior separate felony conviction.

• Specifically addresses the gap created by State v. Abihai (2020), where the Hawaii Supreme Court allowed simultaneous detention credit for both a prior offense and a new offense committed during that imprisonment.

• Prohibits defendants from applying pre-trial detention time for a subsequent offense against their sentence for a prior unrelated felony conviction, even if both charges were pending simultaneously.

• Applies retroactively only to rights, duties, penalties, and proceedings that had not matured or begun before the Act's effective date.

• Effective upon approval.