STAND. COM. REP. 990

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 996

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 996, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate unspecified general funds to various substance abuse treatment programs of the Department of Public Safety (DPS) facilities statewide, including:

(1) Substance abuse treatment for levels I and II minimum custody inmates at Halawa Correctional Facility;

(2) The Crossroads substance abuse treatment program at Waiawa Correctional Facility;

(3) Diagnostic drug assessment and drug screening programs at Maui Community Correctional Center and Kauai Community Correctional Center; and

(4) The Project Bridge program at Maui Community Correctional Center.

The City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Community Alliance on Prisons, the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure. DPS opposed this bill because its passage would adversely affect its priorities contained in the Executive Budget.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Adding the Women's Community Correctional Center to the list of facilities in section 9; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and consistency.

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 S.B. No. 996, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 996, S.D. 1, 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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KEN ITO, Chair