STAND. COM. REP. NO.  361-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 1779

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1779 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu with accomplishing its mission more effectively by appropriating grant-in-aid funds for:

     (1)  Its Career Criminal Prosecution Unit;

     (2)  Prosecuting drug court cases;

     (3)  Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program; and

     (4)  The Victim Witness Assistance Program.

The Crime Victim Compensation Commission, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing:

(1)  All appropriation amounts to unspecified sums; and

(2)  Its effective date to January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

     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 H.B. No. 1779, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1779, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

____________________________

GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair