STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1276

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 491

      S.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 Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 491, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit.

The City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Hawaii Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General provided comments on 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 S.B. No. 491, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair