STAND. COM. REP. NO.  155

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1734

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1734 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to address a range of problems experienced by the large population of native Hawaiian inmates in Hawaii's jails and prisons.  This bill establishes and funds a Native Hawaiian Affairs Manager position to:

 

     (1)  Advise the Director of Public Safety on matters affecting the well-being of incarcerated native Hawaiians;

 

     (2) Work with other entities to coordinate services and opportunities to assure the well-being of this population; and

 

     (3) Find ways to incorporate native Hawaiian cultural practices in various correctional and re-entry programs.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Public Safety supported the intent of this measure.


 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Adding an effective date of July 1, 2015, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1734, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1734, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair