STAND. COM. REP. NO. 113-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2353
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and
Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No.
2353 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require, as condition of a
deferred acceptance of guilty (DAG) or deferred acceptance of no
contest (DANC) plea, payment of compensation fee to be deposited
into the crime victim compensation special fund.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Crime Victim Compensation Commission and the
office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of
Honolulu.  The office of the Public Defender testified in
opposition to this measure.

     Your Committees find that offenders who have acknowledged
their guilt should be required to pay into the crime victim
compensation special fund.  Currently, such offenders do not
contribute to the fund, thus their victims are not compensated as
they should.  The collection of these fines would also help the
Commission in its efforts to attain fiscal self-sufficiency.

     Your Committees have amended this bill to delete the phrase
"conviction of" from the language specifying the size of the fee
to be imposed.  This amendment is to clarify that the

 
 
 
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compensation fee is to be ordered in cases involving a conviction
and DAG or DANC.

     Your Committees have also deleted section 3 from the bill
which sought to prioritize the various fines imposed on an
offender.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary
and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2353, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2353, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair            NESTOR GARCIA, Chair