STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1862-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2114

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2114 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update the Children's Justice Program to include the investigation and management of cases involving suspected or confirmed child sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of children, other child maltreatment, and child witnesses to crime or violence.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary, Department of Education, Department of the Attorney General, Department of Human Services, Honolulu Police Department, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawai‘i, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, County of Kauai Victim/Witness Program, Hawai‘i Exploitation and Trafficking Unit, Hawaii State Bar Association, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, and one individual.

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. 2114 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair