STAND. COM. REP. NO. 198________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 618
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to
which was referred H.B. No. 618 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A PROGRAM OF REGIMENTAL
     DISCIPLINE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Broaden the scope of the regimental discipline program
          to include 17-year-old juvenile offenders;

     (2)  Provide for the participation of the Executive Director
          of the Office of Youth Services (OYS) in the
          administration of the program;

     (3)  Provide specific guidelines for the Department of
          Public Safety (PSD) to implement this program; and

     (4)  Appropriate funds for this program.

     Government Efficiency Teams, Inc. and the Hawaii Coalition
of Small Business Owners supported this measure.  The OYS
testified in support of the intent of this measure, but was
concerned about the danger of treating juvenile and adult
offenders in the same program.  The Department of Public Safety
opposed this measure.


 
 
 
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     Your Committee finds that although a regimental discipline
program is a worthwhile tool to rehabilitate juvenile offenders,
it is unappropriate to mix 17-year old juveniles with adult
offenders in the same program.  Mixing juvenile and adult
offenders violates the spirit of the federal Juvenile Justice
Delinquency Prevention Act, which states that juvenile and adult
offenders detained in a secure area must have sight and sound
separation.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by:

     (1)  Creating a two-year pilot regimental discipline program
          for youth offenders to be administered by OYS;

     (2)  Deleting all references to youth offenders and OYS in
          Section 706-605.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to
          PSD's regimental discipline program; and

     (3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes
          of clarity and style.

     Your Committee finds that this measure, as amended, will
provide practical guidelines for the Department of Public Safety
to successfully implement a regimental discipline adult offenders
program.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 618, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
618, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Public Safety and
                                   Military Affairs,



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                                   NESTOR R. GARCIA, Chair