STAND. COM. REP. NO.  127-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2188

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 2188 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAII CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize Hawaii Correctional Industries to sell goods and services to the general public, which will substantially improve its ability to be financially self-supporting and increase work training opportunities for inmates at no additional cost to the State.

 

     The Department of Public Safety; Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hoomana Pono, LLC; United Public Workers; and two individuals supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that work training programs to increase the employment prospects of inmates after their release shall be offered to appropriately screened inmates in applicable work.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2188, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2188, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

 

 

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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair