STAND. COM. REP. NO. 895-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2278

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2278, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support victims of sexual violence crimes by making emergency appropriations:

(1) For DNA testing of persons convicted of felony offenses by collecting buccal swab samples; and

(2) For programs to prevent sexual violence and to protect and treat sexual violence victims.

The Department of the Attorney General, the Judiciary, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Sexual Assault Support Services, and YWCA of Kauai testified in support of this bill.

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. 2278, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair