STAND. COM. REP. NO. 588

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 53

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 53 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 $365,000 in each fiscal year of fiscal biennium 2019-2021 for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit of the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Hawaii, to be used, in part, to hire necessary staff.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, a Hawaii County Councilmember, Hawaii Coffee Association, and two individuals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts to facilitate further discussion on the 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 H.B. No. 53, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 53, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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CHRIS LEE, Chair