Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 434 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for grants-in-aid to the county prosecutors' offices for career criminal prosecution units and victim assistance programs.

Your Committee finds that career criminal prosecution units and victim witness assistance programs are vital to the prosecution of habitual offenders and to providing crime victims and witnesses access to trained counselors as cases progress through the criminal justice system.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the amount appropriated in Sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 11 to $1 to facilitate further consideration of the exact amounts to be appropriated.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 434, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 434, S.D. 1.