STAND. COM. REP. NO. 339-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 3092

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 3092 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to expand the Halawa correctional facility.

More specifically, the measure directs the Governor and the Department of Public Safety to sell the Oahu Community Correctional Center facility and to use the proceeds to repay the debt incurred by the State for expanding the Halawa Correctional Facility to accommodate the functions of the Oahu Community Correctional Center.

Colliers, Monroe, Friedlander, Inc. testified in support of this bill. The Department of Public Safety did not support this bill. The Community Alliance on Prisons had no position, but offered comments.

Your Committee believes that, due to continued controversy over a new correctional facility site, the combination of existing facilities warrants further discussion.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Replacing the word "sale" with the phrase "sale or exchange" at page 1, line 3, and page 2, line 12;

(2) Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity 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 H.B. No. 3092, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3092, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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KEN ITO, Chair