STAND. COM. REP. NO.966

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 1365

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1365, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WEED AND SEED PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to appropriate funds for the Weed and Seed Hawaii program.

The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii, the Department of Public Safety, the Honolulu Police Department, United States Attorney Steven S. Alm, the Waipahu Community Association, Tamashiro Market, Inc., and two concerned individuals testified in support of the measure.

Your Committee finds that the Weed and Seed program has been helpful in promoting a safer and supportive environment for targeted areas of the program. This measure supports cooperation between federal, state and local agencies, and the private sector to promote the program.

The United States Attorney indicated:

(1) The program can function through a private nonprofit corporation that they recognize as willing to take on the responsibilities of this measure;

(2) The Department of the Attorney General would not be the most appropriate agency to be the expending agency for this program; and

(3) An appropriation amount would only be needed for one year because there is still need to assess the total dollar figure for the following year.

Your Committee amended the bill by:

(1) Clarifying the nature of the public private partnership envisioned;

(2) Deleting provisions making the Department of Attorney General the expending agency;

(3) Inserting a dollar amount for the first year of the program; and

(4) Making technical and nonsubstantive changes for the sake of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1365, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1365, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair