STAND. COM. REP. NO.  356

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 158

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 158 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 to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui for the prosecution of cases under the Drug Court and Mental Health Court Programs.

The Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, and the Maui Police Department provided testimony in support of this measure.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Judiciary respectfully requests that it consider appropriating the following grants-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui:

(1)  $277,065.66 for each year of the fiscal biennium 2015-2017 for the prosecution of cases in Drug Court, including the hiring of staff; and

(2)  $277,065.66 for each year of the fiscal biennium 2015-2017 for the prosecution of cases in Mental Health Courts, including the hiring of staff.

     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. 158 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair