STAND. COM. REP. 435

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 625

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 625 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS TO INCARCERATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to streamline the law regarding alternative programs to incarceration.

In particular, this bill requires the Judiciary to implement alternative programs that place, control, supervise, and treat selected defendants as part of a sentence of incarceration, in addition to the existing alternative programs that are in lieu of incarceration. In the event of a sentence of incarceration, the alternative programs are to supersede the decision of the Director of Public Safety relating to the proper program of redirection and placement of confinement of the committed person.

Your Committee agrees with the intent of this bill, and finds that there is a need to encourage the implementation of alternative programs to incarceration to relieve overcrowding in state correctional facilities.

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. 625 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 Public Safety and Military Affairs,

 

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KEN ITO, Chair