STAND. COM. REP. NO. 158

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 603
                                        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.
603 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE KASHBOX
     PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to continue
the KASHBOX substance abuse treatment program.

     Your Committee finds that there is a high correlation
between substance abuse and crime in Hawaii.  Your Committee
further finds that the Waiawa Correctional Facility's KASHBOX
substance abuse treatment program has been highly successful
since its opening in March 1990, but faces a budget shortfall in
the next biennium.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Public Safety, the Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney,
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and the Community Alliance on
Prisons.

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

     (1)  Decreasing the appropriation amount to more accurately
          reflect the shortfall between the administration's
          budget request and the supplemental amount being
          requested by the program; and

 
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     (2)  Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
603, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 603, 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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