STAND. COM. REP. NO 272

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1332

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1332 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Establish an additional sanction available to the Judiciary prior to full parole revocation; and

 

     (2)  Define "absconded" to mean the failure of a parolee to report to the parole officer when required; and surrender within seven days following the issuance of a warrant for apprehension of the parolee.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai.

 

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii's justice reinvestment efforts in 2012 culminated in the passage of Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, to "reduce recidivism by using swift and certain, yet less costly and severe, responses to parole condition violations".  However, a far lower than expected rate of parolees received sanctions in lieu of revocation of parole.  Implementation of this measure provides for greater eligibility of parolees for sanctions by limiting the definition of "absconded" and establishing an additional sanction available prior to full revocation of parole.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1332, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1332, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair