STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2724

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2690
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2690, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROBATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require a court, at
sentencing, to order a defendant sentenced to probation to pay a
probation service fee of $150 if probation is for more than one
year, or $75 for a probation term of one year or less.  It is
also the purpose of this bill to establish the probation services
special fund.

     Your Committee finds that the increase in the probation
offender population in the last five years has not been matched
by an increase in program resources.  Probation service fees will
help to defray administrative costs and may help offenders
realize that they have to take responsibility for their acts,
including costs resulting from their criminal conduct.

     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.
2690, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2690,
S.D. 2.


 
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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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