STAND. COM. REP. NO.  773-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1647

      H.D. 2

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. 1647, 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,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to continue to provide criminal justice services to the community by appropriating funds for grants-in-aids to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit, Victim Witness Assistance Program, Veterans Court, Drug Court, and Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program.

The Crime Victim Compensation Commission; Office of Veterans Services; and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting unspecified amounts for all of the appropriations to encourage further discussion;

     (2)  Changing the expending agency from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu to the Department of the Attorney General; and

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 1647, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1647, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair