STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2432

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2334

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2334 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII YOUTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to ensure that funding for the operations of the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF) is maintained through the end of FY 2005-2006.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the State Attorney General, the Department of Human Services, and Hawaii Disability Rights Center.

The Department of Justice and the State have reached a comprehensive agreement addressing concerns relating to HYCF. The agreement requires a number of improvements requiring extensive steps to be taken to improve the facility. Your Committees find that further appropriations for these requirements are needed immediately, because the Governor has taken prompt action to satisfy the agreement.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to clarify the expending agency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2334, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2334, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair