STAND. COM. REP. NO. 613

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 546

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 546, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish and administer an electronic monitoring pilot program for committed offenders.

 

     Your Committee received three written comments on this measure.  Copies of written comments submitted are available for review on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that electronic monitoring allows eligible nonviolent offenders to live and work in the community as they approach the end of their incarceration.  Electronic monitoring is a cost-effective way to monitor offenders.  It is less expensive than incarceration, may reduce the likelihood of recidivism and the costs attendant thereto, and affords a means to protect the public during the reintegration of offenders back into the community.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your


Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 546, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair