STAND. COM. REP. NO.  214-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1770

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1770 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the career criminal prosecution unit.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General, City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Hawaii Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, and one individual testified in support of this measure.  One individual testified in opposition.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount from $493,818 to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     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. 1770, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1770, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair