STAND. COM. REP. NO. 788

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 231

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 231 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require that all fees collected by the Judiciary for all applications made by parolees and probationers for transfer to out-of-state supervision be deposited into the probation services special fund instead of the general fund.

 

     This measure also authorizes funds from the probation services special fund to be used to fund a full-time coordinator to supervise interstate transfers of adult offenders.  The Judiciary's expenditures from the fund would also be limited to $400,000 in any fiscal year.

 

     Your Committee received four written comments on this measure.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that a full-time coordinator is necessary to oversee the transfers of parolees and probationers from Hawaii to out-of-state jurisdictions.  Your Committee also finds that the interstate transfer program should be self-sufficient, generating sources of revenue to offset administrative costs.  The fees paid by parolees or probationers will defray some of the costs of administering the interstate transfer program.

 

Your Committee believes that by using the fees to fund the interstate transfer program, the Judiciary should be able to keep expenditures from the probation services special fund under $400,000 each fiscal year.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on this issue.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 231, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 231, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair