STAND. COM. REP. NO.  819

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 452

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 452 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATEWIDE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of the Attorney General for the current fiscal biennium for statewide sexual assault services and to establish a minimum base budget amount for future fiscal years.

 

     The Crime Victim Compensation Commission, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Kokua Council & AARP 60, YWCA of Hawaii Island, YWCA of Kauai, and Child & Family Service supported this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General commented on this measure.  

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the amounts appropriated to the Department of the Attorney General and the minimum base budget amount to unspecified amounts; 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 H.B. No. 452, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 452, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair