STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1624-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2433

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2433, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION UNITS AND VICTIM WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for grants-in-aid to the prosecuting attorney's office in each county for the county's career criminal prosecution unit and the victim witness assistance program.

The Crime Victim Compensation Commission, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Maui, County of Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Honolulu Police Department, Maui Victim-Witness Assistance Division of the Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney Victim/Witness Program, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Hawaii, Hawaii Office of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and Sex Abuse Treatment Center testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

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

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 S.B. No. 2433, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2433, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair