STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2447

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2111

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2111 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent 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.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Maui, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, and Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Hawaii.

     Your Committees find that a substantial and disproportionate amount of serious crime is caused by a relatively small number of multiple and repeat felony offenders.  Such individuals are commonly known as career criminals.  The career criminal prosecution program was established to support efforts by prosecuting attorneys to pursue such individuals, but funding for the program has declined since its inception.  Your Committees find that funding the career criminal prosecution program is in the public interest.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2111 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor,

________________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair