Bill Text: HI HB246 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Appropriations; Grants; Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 322, 7/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1439). [HB246 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB246-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3345

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 246

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 246, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS 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 moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu to provide services for state mandated programs.

 

     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 this measure appropriates funds for grants-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu to support the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit, the Drug Court Program, Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program, and the Victim Witness Assistance Program, including the hiring of necessary staff.  This measure will assist the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney in maximizing services to the community through these programs.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts; and

 

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

 

     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 H.B. No. 246, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 246, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair