REPORT TITLE: 
Correctional facilities

DESCRIPTION:
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and
appropriates funds for capital improvements to construct
correctional facilities.  Appropriates funds for operational
purposes.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.384        
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO PRISONS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the State is facing a
 
 2 crisis, wherein state correctional programs and facilities
 
 3 greatly exceed their capacity.  The State has responded to this
 
 4 situation by means of a redistribution of inmates among state
 
 5 facilities and by transferring prisoners to mainland United
 
 6 States institutions.  These responses, though helpful in reducing
 
 7 the overcrowding problem, will only offer temporary relief.  The
 
 8 legislature further finds that the construction of additional
 
 9 prison facilities will enable the State to house repeat offenders
 
10 and career criminals instead of releasing them prematurely into
 
11 the community without being rehabilitated.  This will help put an
 
12 end to the "revolving door" practice at our prisons.  The
 
13 legislature also finds that every reasonable effort should be
 
14 made to inform, involve, and benefit the communities considered
 
15 and ultimately elected for placement of any prison, in ways
 
16 including but not limited to the minimization of adverse
 
17 environmental and social impacts, job training and hiring
 
18 preferences, and the procurement of local products and services.
 

 
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 1 Further, the legislature intends that every reasonable effort be
 
 2 made to inform, involve, and benefit the communities considered
 
 3 and ultimately selected, in ways including but not limited to,
 
 4 the minimization of adverse environmental and social impacts, job
 
 5 training and hiring preferences, and the procurement of local
 
 6 products and services.
 
 7      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to create
 
 8 prison space by constructing a medium security facility for the
 
 9 detention of serious offenders.  
 
10      SECTION 2.  The director of finance is authorized to issue
 
11 general obligation bonds in the sum of $     or so much thereof
 
12 as may be necessary and the same sum or so much thereof as may be
 
13 necessary is appropriated for fiscal year 1999-2000 for the
 
14 following project for the department of public safety.
 
15      1.   Design, construction, land, and equipment for a medium
 
16           security correctional facility on the island of Hawaii.
 
17           Design                                    $          
 
18           Construction
 
19           Land
 
20           Equipment
 
21           Total                                      $         
 
22      SECTION 3.  The appropriations made for the capital
 
23 improvement projects authorized in section 2 of this Act shall not
 

 
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 1 lapse at the end of the fiscal year in which the appropriation is
 
 2 made; provided that all appropriations which are unencumbered as
 
 3 of June 30, 2003, shall lapse as of that date.
 
 4      SECTION 4.  The sum appropriated in section 2 of this Act
 
 5 shall be expended by the department of accounting and general
 
 6 services for the purposes of this Act.
 
 7      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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