STAND. COM. REP. NO. 246

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 946
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 946 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT  RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the requirement
that counties provide residential detention for prearraignment
detainees.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Hawaii County Council and the Office of the Corporation Counsel,
Hawaii County.

     Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the
Attorney General and the Department of Public Safety.

     Your Committee finds that requiring the counties to provide
residential detention for prearraignment detainees is a financial
burden upon the counties, particularly when county finances are
inadequate to support public services and to build or renovate
needed county facilities.  Your Committee believes that detaining
persons charged with crimes should be a responsibility of the
Department of Public Safety.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the

 
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intent and purpose of S.B. No. 946 and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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