STAND. COM. REP. NO.  259

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1404

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1404 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE HAWAII COUNTY OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the County of Hawaii Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and the Victim Witness Assistance Program.

The Department of the Attorney General, Crime Victim Compensation Commission, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and one individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     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. 1404 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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