STAND. COM. REP. NO. 827-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2648
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2648, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROBATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize a Probation Service
Fee (Fee) as a condition of probation by:

     (1)  Requiring that adult offenders, sentenced to probation
          or granted a motion to defer acceptance of guilty or
          nolo contendere plea, pay a fee of $100 for a term of
          more than one year, or $50 for a term of one year or
          less; and

     (2)  Establishing the Probation Services Special Fund by
          which moneys collected by the Fee will be deposited for
          the purpose of monitoring, enforcing, and collecting
          monetary obligations owed by defendants as terms of
          probation.

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

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the appropriation for fiscal year 2001-2002,
          as it is uncommon to appropriate funds beyond the two-
          year period encompassing the current fiscal biennium;
          and

 
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     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity 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 H.B. No.
2648, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2648, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair