STAND. COM. REP. NO. 154

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 223
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
223 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A CANINE CORPS IN THE
     DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require, and appropriate
funds for, the establishment of a canine corps in the Department
of Public Safety.

     Your Committee finds that the availability of illegal drugs
in state correctional facilities is a major problem for prison
staff and administrators.  Your Committee further finds that the
canine corps established under this measure will help control the
distribution of and hopefully eliminate illegal drugs within
correctional facilities.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Public Safety and an individual corrections
officer.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by adding language stating that the canine corps would be
most appropriately placed in the Law Enforcement Division of the
Department.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
223, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 223, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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