STAND. COM. REP. 398

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 176

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 176 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to expand the Weed and Seed program by authorizing the Department of Public Safety to contract with a nonprofit corporation for a variety of functions.

The Department of Public Safety, the Honolulu Police Department, the Weed and Seed Hawaii Strategy, the Downtown Neighborhood Board No. 18, and Meadow Gold Dairies testified in support of this bill.

Your Committees find that the Weed and Seed program has been well received and effective. The program is expected to expand to other areas.

Your Committees have amended this bill by making technical, nonsubtantive changes for style and clarity.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Public Safety and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 176, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 176, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Public Safety and Military Affairs,

 

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KEN ITO, Chair

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair