STAND. COM. REP. NO.  829-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2333

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2333, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE INTEGRATED SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to strengthen the statewide integrated sex offender treatment program by employing a best practices philosophy in providing a continuum of programs under the comprehensive statewide master plan and by requiring the development and implementation of standards and guidelines for the assessment, evaluation, treatment, and supervision of sex offenders.

 

     The Department of Public Safety and a few concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Office of Information Practices submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Specifying that the statewide, integrated program for the treatment of sex offenders applies only to adult offenders;

 


     (2)  Deleting provisions that exempted the statewide integrated sex offender treatment program from certain public-meetings requirements pursuant to part I of Chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2333, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2333, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair