STAND. COM. REP. 231

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 331

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 331 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate unspecified general funds to substance abuse treatment programs of the Department of Public Safety facilities statewide.

Your Committee finds that up to ninety per cent of the State's inmate population has a history of substance abuse, yet only ten per cent of those who require treatment actually receive it. Your Committee also finds that studies have revealed a correlation between substance abuse, addiction, and crime. Furthermore, treatment programs decrease recidivism and assist in genuine rehabilitation.

Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying a $1 appropriation for each program in each year of the next fiscal biennium, and by adding the Waiawa correctional facility to the list of facilities in section 9.

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 H.B. No. 331, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 331, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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KEN ITO, Chair