Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2433, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committee finds that continued funding for the Career Criminal Prosecution units and Victim Witness Assistance programs is necessary given their critical role in the prosecution of chronic offenders and in providing services to the victims and witnesses of crimes committed in Hawaii, respectively.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the amount appropriated in sections 1, 2, and 5 of the bill to an unspecified sum to facilitate further discussion.

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 S.B. No. 2433, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2433, S.D. 2.