STAND. COM. REP. NO. 568

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 213

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 213 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Public Safety to establish performance indicators that provide data on the success and failures of rehabilitative programs and to provide the Legislature with a report on the performance indicators each month beginning on July 31, 2009.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by three private organizations and five individuals.  Testimony in opposition of this measure was submitted by two state agencies.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that establishing key performance indicators that can be used to analyze comprehensive reentry and other rehabilitative programs is necessary to track the progress of those programs.  Your Committee also finds that requiring the Department of Public Safety to submit a report on the performance indicators to the Legislature is vital for the Legislature to assess the Department of Public Safety's effectiveness in implementing those programs.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Amending the list of key performance indicators to include information relating to inmates and parolees; and

 

     (2)  Amending the Department of Public Safety's reporting requirement to the Legislature from monthly to only requiring a report within thirty days of the last working day of April, August, and December, beginning with the period ending on August 31, 2009.

 

     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. 213, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 213, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair