STAND. COM. REP. NO.  749-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2598

      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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2598, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRE-SENTENCE REPORTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the efficiency of the pre-sentence investigative process as it relates to convicted defendants by deleting the Intake Service Center as an agency responsible for preparing the pre-sentence diagnosis and report for defendants and for giving notices of the Crime Victim Compensation Act and other specified restitution procedures.

The Department of Public Safety testified in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2598, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair