STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2026

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2250

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2250 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PAROLE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Paroling Authority to utilize a continuum of administrative sanctions for violations of terms and conditions of parole, in lieu of revocation of parole.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Hawaii Paroling Authority, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Community Alliance on Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the purpose of a continuum of administrative sanctions is to encourage the Hawaii Paroling Authority to work with offenders in the community rather than revoking parole for violations of terms and conditions of parole.  Currently the Hawaii Paroling Authority lacks alternatives to reimprisonment for parole violators.  Your Committee finds that reimprisonment is one alternative among several potential sanctions, some of which go further to give the parole violator another chance to reintegrate and become a productive member of society.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2025, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2250, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2250, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair