STAND. COM. REP. NO.  258

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 210

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. 210 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 appropriate funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and Victim Witness Assistance Program.

The Crime Victim Compensation Commission, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, and the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai 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. 210 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