STAND. COM. REP. NO.  41

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 691

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 691 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE VETERANS TREATMENT COURT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds:

     (1)  To be expended by the Judiciary to support the Veterans Treatment Court; and

     (2)  For a grant-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu to hire the necessary staff to support the Veterans Treatment Court.

The Office of Veterans Services, Judiciary, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and a concerned individual supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 691 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

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KEN ITO, Chair