Report Title:

Corrections; Work Release; County Projects

Description:

Appropriates funds to enable the work release program to provide more opportunities for qualifying inmates to work on county projects. Requires each county to match state funding for all work performed on its projects by the work release program.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1123

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to corrections.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The work release program, created administratively by the department of public safety, allows inmates to perform maintenance work on public property, such as state and county parks, roads, facilities, and conservation lands. Work release helps to establish a pattern of positive inmate behavior while providing the department the opportunity to take corrective measures when necessary. It is one of the most effective ways to safely integrate offenders back into the communities. Work release is also of mutual benefit to the state and counties because it provides needed help for state and county projects. The legislature finds that the work release program should be expanded to provide more opportunities for qualifying inmates to work on county projects.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to enable the work release program to provide more opportunities for qualifying inmates to work on county projects.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2005-2006, and the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, for the work release program to provide more opportunities for qualifying inmates to work on county projects; provided that no funds shall be appropriated for a county project unless matched by the respective county on a dollar for dollar basis.

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of public safety for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.

INTRODUCED BY:

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