STAND. COM. REP. NO. 167

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1159
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
1159 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide and maintain support
for the Crime Victim Compensation Commission.

     Your Committee finds that the Crime Victim Compensation
Commission is working toward self-sufficiency based upon
compensation fees collected from offenders.  Your Committee
further finds that the Commission needs additional time to build
its revenues before it will be operationally self-sufficient.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Crime Victim Compensation Commission, the Department of the
Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, and the
Sex Abuse Treatment Center.

     Upon further consideration, your committee has amended this
measure by adding a sunset date of July 1, 2001.

     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.
1159, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1159, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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