Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2433, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for grants-in-aid to the Prosecuting Attorney's office in each county for the Career Criminal Prosecution units and the Victim Witness Assistance programs.

The Crime Victim Compensation Commission, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Na Loio Immigrant Rights and Public Interest Legal Center, and The Sex Abuse Treatment Center testified in support of this bill.

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. 2433, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.