STAND. COM. REP. NO.  782-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2163

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2163, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH GANGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to help reduce youth violence and delinquency in the State by appropriating funds to the Department of Human Services to fund the operational costs of providing therapeutic prevention and mental health programs including in-school centered group counseling for high risk youth.

Adult Friends for Youth; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1186; Ho‘omaluhia, Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute, Hawaii Branch; Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma; and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Youth Services and the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney commented on this measure.

     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. 2163, 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