STAND. COM. REP. NO.1053

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 704

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 704, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Repeal the July 1, 2001, sunset date of Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, to permanently eliminate the 30 percent cap on operating expenses of the Crime Victim Compensation Commission (CVCC);

(2) Exempt the Executive Director and Administrative Assistant of CVCC from the State's Civil Service Law; and

(3) Appropriate funds to compensate crime victims and their providers.

CVCC, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, and a concerned citizen submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Requiring a report to the Legislature on the collection of revenues to the Crime Victim Compensation Special Fund; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 704, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 704, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair

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NESTOR GARCIA, Chair