STAND. COM. REP. NO.  814

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 210

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 210 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to strengthen law-enforcement efforts by appropriating funds to restore currently unfunded positions and the capacity to provide the full array of services required of the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and Victim Witness Assistance Program of the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General, Crime Victim Compensation Commission, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai, and a concerned individual supported the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting blank appropriation amounts and changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style were also made.

 

     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. 210, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 210, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair