STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1212

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 434

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 434 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION UNITS AND VICTIM WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds as grants-in-aid to the county prosecutors' offices for career criminal prosecution units and victim assistance programs.

The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, the Honolulu Police Department, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Hawaii, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Kauai, and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Maui testified in support of the measure.

Your Committees find that supporting career criminal prosecution units and victim witness assistance programs on all the islands are vital to the prosecution of habitual offenders as well as providing crime victims and witnesses access to trained counselors to assist them as their case progresses through the criminal justice system.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 434, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair