STAND. COM. REP. NO. 630

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 212

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 212, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require privately owned prisons or out-of-state detention facilities that incarcerate Hawaii inmates pursuant to a contract with the State of Hawaii to follow the state freedom of information laws pursuant to chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Your Committee finds that it is important for privately owned prisons and out-of-state detention facilities operating under a contract with the State of Hawaii to maintain a standard of accountability and transparency.  Your Committee also finds that information submitted to the Legislature by privately owned prisons and out-of-state detention facilities under the State's freedom of information laws will aid the Legislature in making sound fiscal and public policy decisions regarding the incarceration of Hawaii inmates.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting section 1, the purpose section.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 212, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 212, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair