STAND. COM. REP. NO.  127

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 457

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 457 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY COURT OUTREACH PROJECT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help nonviolent offenders who face drug abuse and mental health challenges by establishing the Community Court Outreach Project with the coordinated efforts of the Judiciary, Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and Public Defender in the City and County of Honolulu and appropriate funds to the Judiciary for the purposes of the Project.

 

     The Judiciary, Office of the Public Defender, Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, City and County of Honolulu's Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, The Salvation Army Addiction Treatment Services and Family Treatment Services, Community Alliance on Prisons, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, and one individual testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.


 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 457, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 457, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair