STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2475
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2374
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. 2374 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS TO THE HAWAII COUNTY OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii for the career criminal prosecution unit.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Hawaii, and Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Maui.
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. 2374 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,
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________________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair |
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________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair |
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