STAND. COM. REP. NO. 801

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1286

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1286 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 and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for Hawaii County for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for Hawaii County and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that this measure will help support the prosecution of repeat-felony offenders, who commit a disproportionate number of serious crimes against the public.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified sum; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1286, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1286, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair