STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1987

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: S.B. No. 264

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 264, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EXAMINATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the amount of compensation for private sector examiners who evaluate a criminal defendant's penal responsibility or fitness to proceed in a legal case and appropriate funds to the Judiciary for these payments.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary; one member of the Kauaʻi County Council; Hawaiʻi Psychological Association; and Hawaii Disability Rights Center. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health and Office of the Public Defender.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

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. 264, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 264, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair