STAND. COM. REP. NO. 980-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2533
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and
Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No.
2533, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require payment of a
compensation fee for deposit into the crime victim compensation
special fund, as a condition of a deferred acceptance of a guilty
plea or a nolo contendere plea under section 853-1, Hawaii
Revised Statutes.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Crime Victim Compensation Commission, the Sex
Abuse Treatment Center, and the Department of the Prosecuting
Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu.  The Office of the
Public Defender submitted testimony in opposition to this
measure.

     Your Committees find that persons entering a deferred plea
under section 853-1 are receiving a substantial benefit, and
therefore, they should not be excluded from the requirement to
make payments that are intended to compensate victims of crime.
Your Committees also note that amount of compensation fee charged
for such defendants will be modest and that current law provides
exceptions for those persons unable to pay.


 
 
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     Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting its
contents and inserting the contents of H.B. 2353, H.D. 1.

     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 S.B. No.
2533, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2533, S.D.
1, 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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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair            NESTOR GARCIA, Chair