STAND. COM. REP. NO.  461-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1647

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1647 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 continue to provide criminal justice services to the community by appropriating funds for grants-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit, victim witness assistance program, veterans court, drug court, and Hawaii's opportunity probation with enforcement program.

The Crime Victim Compensation Commission, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and an individual testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying the following sums to be inserted as appropriation amounts for the following City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney programs:

     (1)  $344,015 for the career criminal prosecution unit;

     (2)  $183,651 for the victim witness assistance program;

     (3)  $50,799 for the veterans court program;

     (4)  $107,788.22 for the drug court program; and

     (5)  $337,244 for Hawaii's opportunity probation with enforcement program.

     Technical, nonsubstantive changes were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 1647, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1647, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair