STAND. COM. REP. 2218

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2975

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2975 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PAROLING AUTHORITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to change the two part-time board members of the Hawaii paroling authority to full-time board members.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Public Safety, Hawaii Paroling Authority, and Government Efficiency Teams, Inc.

Your Committees find that currently, only the Chair of the Hawaii Paroling Authority is a full-time board member. There are two part-time board members, and since the inception of the paroling authority in 1976, the board-member status has not changed.

Since 1980, the parole population has grown from 437 to 2,622 in 2003. Likewise, the number of parole-related hearings has increased from approximately 350 to 2,936. Thus, your Committee believes that changing the two part-time positions to full-time status will aid the paroling authority in effectively and efficiently performing their duties.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2975 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Labor,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair