STAND. COM. REP. NO. 307
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 424
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 424 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE HONOLULU FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds as a grant-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Honolulu Family Justice Center.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney City and County of Honolulu, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney County of Kauai, Ala Kuola, and three individuals.
Your Committees find that the Honolulu Family Justice Center provides victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking with a safe environment during some of their most vulnerable stages of separation from their abuser. Implementation of this measure will provide comprehensive services to victims, facilitate prosecution of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking offenses, and ultimately provide better assurance that more offenders are held accountable for their actions.
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. 424 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the 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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____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair |
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