STAND. COM. REP. NO.  724

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1005

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1005, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE VETERANS TREATMENT COURT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Judiciary and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu to support and adequately staff the Veterans Treatment Court.

The County of Hawaii Office of the Prosecuting Attorney; Office of Veterans Services; Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States; the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency; and a few individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Judiciary and City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney provided comments.

     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. 1005, 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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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair