STAND. COM. REP. NO.  260

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 414

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. 414 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE COUNTY OF KAUAI OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid to the County of Kauai, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for its Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and Victim Witness Assistance Program.

The Crime Victim Compensation Commission; Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, City and County of Honolulu; Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Hawaii; Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Kauai; Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui; and Kauai Police Department testified 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. 414 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