STAND. COM. REP. NO. 193________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 69
                                     H.D. 1
                                     




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and
Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No.
69, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to transfer the Crime Victim
Compensation Commission (Commission) from the Department of
Public Safety to the Department of the Attorney General.

     The State Attorney General, the Office of the Prosecuting
Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and the Crime Victim
Compensation Commission testified in support of this measure.
The Department of Public Safety testified in support of this
measure, but requested an adequate period of time to transfer the
Commission.

     Your Committees find that the Commission is concerned with
victims of crimes, while the Department of Public Safety is
concerned with perpetrators of crimes.  As such, the placement of
the Commission in the Department of Public Safety is
inappropriate.  Your Committees further find that the Office of
the Attorney General is more appropriate because:

     (1)  It is the State's central agency for federal funds
          received from the Federal Victims of Crime Act and
          other grants; and

 
 
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     (2)  It already advises the Commission on legal matters, and
          administers, monitors, and provides federal funds to
          county and private agencies, which assist victims of
          crime.

     Your Committees have amended the bill by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2000, to
          provide the Department of Public Safety with a
          sufficient transition period; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary
and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
69, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading
in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 69, H.D. 1, and be
referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Public Safety
                                   and Military Affairs and
                                   Judiciary and Hawaiian
                                   Affairs,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair              NESTOR R. GARCIA, Chair