STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3292

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2179

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2179, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to protect the public from career criminals by providing a $350,000 grant-in-aid to the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit of the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the funding provided by this measure is necessary for the continued operation of the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit, which prosecutes cases alleging serious crimes committed by multiple-felony and repeat-felony offenders.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2179, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2179, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair