STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1090

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 49

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 49, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide a communication link between what happens in a correctional facility and policy makers by requiring the Director of Public Safety to report any death of a correctional facility employee or inmate to the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and legislative committee chairs having primary responsibility for public safety issues.

 

     This measure applies specifically to deaths that occur:

 

     (1)  At a correctional facility; or

 

     (2)  From an injury sustained at a correctional facility.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Community Alliance on Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, a Maui County Councilmember, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Public Safety opposed this measure.


 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to promote further discussion; and

    

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and 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 S.B. No. 49, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 49, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Legislative Management.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair