STAND. COM. REP. NO.  681-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1572

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1572 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE COUNTY OF MAUI,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for grants-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui for the prosecution of cases, including the hiring of staff, in the drug and mental health court programs.

The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     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. 1572 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair