STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1019

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 280

H.D. 3

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 H.B. No. 280, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH COURT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to permanently establish and appropriate funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement; Department of Human Services; Office of the Public Defender; State Council on Mental Health; Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition; The Institute for Human Services, Inc.; Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction Center; Opportunity for Youth Action Hawaiʻi; and two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary and Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the number of positions to an unspecified number; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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 H.B. No. 280, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 280, H.D. 3.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair