STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3365

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 210

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 210, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, 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 and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid for the career criminal prosecution unit of the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committee finds that a relatively small number of career criminals who are multiple and repeat felony offenders commit a substantial and disproportionate number of serious crimes.  The career criminal prosecution program was established to support efforts to prosecute those individuals, and your Committee finds that funding the program is in the public interest.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2076, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 210, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 210, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair