STAND. COM. REP. NO.  264

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 452

 

 

 

 

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 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 increase and set the base budget of the Department of the Attorney General for statewide sexual assault services.

 

     The Crime Victim Compensation Commission, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, YWCA of Kauai, Child & Family Service, YWCA of Hawaii Island, Hawaii Women's Coalition, and a few individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General provided comments on this measure.

 

     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 H.B. No. 452 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