STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2069

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 246

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 246, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu to provide services for various state mandated programs.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and the Sex Abuse Treatment Center.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure appropriates funds for grants-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu to support four programs:  the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit; Hawaii's drug court program; the Hawaii opportunity probation with enforcement program; and the Honolulu victims witness kokua services program.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting the sum of $734,973 to be appropriated for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit;

 

     (2)  Inserting the sum of $121,057 to be appropriated for Hawaii's drug court program;

 

     (3)  Inserting the sum of $86,888 to be appropriated for the Hawaii's opportunity probation with enforcement program;

 

     (4)  Inserting the sum of $502,965 to be appropriated for the Honolulu victims witness kokua services program;

 

     (5)  Changing the fiscal year of the appropriations from 2011-2012 to 2012-2013;

 

     (6)  Changing the effective date from July 1, 2030, to July 1, 2012; and

 

     (7)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 246, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 246, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair