STAND. COM. REP. NO. 678

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1159
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1159, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to maintain support for the
crime victim compensation commission until July 1, 2001.

     The bill also repeals the thirty per cent limit on the
amount of moneys received that may be used for operating expenses
and to fund positions.

     Your Committee finds that although the crime victim
compensation commission is working toward self-sufficiency based
upon compensation fees collected from offenders, the commission
requires additional time to build its revenues before it will
become operationally self-sufficient.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1159, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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