STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1086

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 524

      S.D. 2

 

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 524, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING A GRANT TO THE HAWAII COUNTY OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds as a grant-in-aid to the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and the Victim Witness Assistance Program.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General, Crime Victim Compensation Commission, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai and a concerned individual submitted 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 grants-in-aid to the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii in the following amounts:

 

(1)  $87,631 for fiscal year 2015-2016 and $99,487 for fiscal year 2016-2017 for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit; and

 

(2)  $59,956 for fiscal year 2015-2016 and $76,183 for fiscal year 2016-2017 for the Victim Witness Assistance Program.

 

     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 S.B. No. 524, S.D. 2, 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