STAND. COM. REP. 2651

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 Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2975 entitled:

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

begs 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.

Your Committee finds 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 status of the board members has not changed.

Since 1980, the parole population has grown from 437 to 2,622 in 2003. Likewise, the number of annual 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 its duties.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2975 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair