STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1752

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 26

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 26, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FOR HAWAII COUNTY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds as a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for its career criminal prosecution unit.

The Mayor of Maui County, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the appropriation to the County of Hawaii Office of the Prosecuting Attorney is a subsidy rather than a grant-in-aid.

     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 S.B. No. 26, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 26, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair