STAND. COM. REP. NO. 789

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 414

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. 414 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 and intent of this measure is to appropriate funding to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu as a grant-in-aid for the Department's career criminal prosecution unit.

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

Your Committee finds that the funds appropriated by this measure will allow the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney's career criminal prosecution unit to continue operating at its current capacity.

Your Committee has amended this measure by 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. 414, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 414, 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