STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1012

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 1305

      S.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 Judiciary, 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 appropriate funds as a grant-in-aid to the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and Victim Witness Assistance Program.

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

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Judiciary respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $129,561 for each year of Fiscal Biennium 2015-2017 for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and $51,163 for each year of Fiscal Biennium 2015-2017 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. 1305, S.D. 1, 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