STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1621

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1305

      S.D. 1

      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 S.B. No. 1305, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE COUNTY OF KAUAI OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to maximize the effectiveness of the prosecution of career criminals and the provision of direct support services to victims and witnesses of crimes committed in Hawaii by appropriating funds as a grant-in-aid to the County of Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and Victim Witness Assistance Program.

 

     The Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, County of Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, and Crime Victim Compensation Commission testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Making the appropriations in the amount of $1 to encourage further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of 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. 1305, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1305, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair