STAND. COM. REP. NO.  607-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2539

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2539 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKPLACE TRAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Public Safety (DPS), in consultation with the Department of Human Services, to develop a training curriculum for its employees to gain an understanding of ethnic and cultural diversity and its implications for working with adult offenders of various ethnic backgrounds and their families. 

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Community Alliance on Prisons supported this bill.  DPS submitted comments.

 

     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. 2539 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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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CINDY EVANS, Chair