STAND. COM. REP. 1060
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 361
S.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Judiciary and Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 361, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WEED AND SEED PROGRAM,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of the bill is to expand the Weed and Seed Program (Program) with the Department of Public Safety and nonprofit corporations.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this bill from the Department of Public Safety, the Honolulu Police Department, the Downtown Neighborhood Board No. 18, the Hawaii Medical Services Association, and the Meadow Gold Dairies. The Judiciary and the Office of the Lieutenant Governor supported the intent and purpose of the measure. The Weed and Seed Hawaii Strategy supported the measure with amendments.
Your Committees find that the Program has been well-received and effective. The Program is expected to expand to other areas in the future.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Public Safety and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 361, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Public Safety and Military Affairs,
____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair |
____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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