STAND. COM. REP. NO. 369

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 400
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was
referred H.B. No. 400 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SUPPORT
     SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for
support services for victims of domestic violence.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Judiciary, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, City and
County of Honolulu, the Department of Health, the Democratic
Party of Hawaii, the Hawaii Catholic Conference, and the Domestic
Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline.

     Your Committee finds that additional funds should be made
available to address domestic violence.  These funds should be
used to improve the legal system and increase victim support
services.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

     (1)  Providing that both the Family Court and the Department
          of the Attorney General should expend additional funds
          to address domestic violence; 

     (2)  Changing the appropriation to $1 for each expending
          agency for discussion purposes; and

 
 
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     (3)  Making technical, nonsubtantive amendments for purposes
          of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 400, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 400, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Human Services
                                   and Housing,



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                                   DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair