STAND. COM. REP. NO. 877

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1460
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1460, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EXPANSION
     OF THE VIDEO ARRAIGNMENT AND CONFERENCING SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to expand the video arraignment
and conferencing system in the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit
and Halawa Correctional Facility by appropriating funds to obtain
federal grant moneys to continue Phase II of the Third Circuit
Court Video Conferencing Project.

     The Department of Public Safety, the Judiciary, and the
Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of
Honolulu testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount to $1 to facilitate
          further discussion on this measure; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1460, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass

 
 
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Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1460, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair