STAND. COM. REP. NO.935

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 634

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 634, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TWO COUNSELORS TO TREAT WOMEN INCARCERATED FOR DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES ON MAUI,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to fund two drug treatment counselor positions on the island of Maui to treat women offenders who qualify for the drug court program.

Your Committee finds that Maui has the highest incidence of drug and alcohol abuse of any of the Hawaiian islands. Currently, forty-four of fifty-five women incarcerated in the Maui community correctional center qualify for participation in the drug court program; however, six women are receiving drug treatment on the Mainland because the Maui community correctional center does not have an existing structure to house a drug court program. This appropriation will provide needed treatment for these women incarcerated on drug-related charges.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the specific amounts appropriated to facilitate continuing discussion on this matter, and by making other technical nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 634, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 634, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair