STAND. COM. REP. NO. 228

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 231

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 231 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the fee on a parolee or probationer's application for a transfer out of Hawaii to be deposited into the probation services special fund and not the general fund.

 

     This measure also authorizes the full-time coordinator position to supervise interstate adult offender transfers to be funded from the probation services special fund and limits the Hawaii State Judiciary's expenditures from the probation services special fund to $400,000 in any fiscal year.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two state agencies.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that it is necessary to have a full-time coordinator supervise and oversee interstate adult offender transfers from Hawaii to a correctional facility or prison outside of Hawaii.  Requiring the parolee or probationer to pay a fee with their transfer application will help to subsidize the costs associated with interstate adult offender transfers and alleviate the Judiciary's need to use more than $400,000 of the probation services special fund to administer interstate adult offender transfers.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 231 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

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

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair