Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 650 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for the Weed and Seed Strategy.

Testimony in support was submitted by the Attorney General, the Honolulu Police Department, and Aloha United Way.

Your Committee finds that the Weed and Seed Strategy has been successful since its inception in the Kalihi-Palama and Chinatown areas of downtown Honolulu. Since the beginning of the program, crime in those areas has been significantly reduced and the program's success warrants its expansion into other communities.

Your Committee amended this measure to incorporate an amendment suggested by the Attorney General to specify that the funds be appropriated as a grant to the Honolulu YMCA with the Department of the Attorney General as the expending agency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 650, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 650, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.