STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 745-18
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2018
RE: H.B. No. 2147
H.D. 2
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2018
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2147, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The
purpose of this measure is to
divert individuals with mental health or substance abuse challenges from the
criminal justice system and connect them with community mental health services
and related supportive services by:
(1) Establishing a Pre-Arrest Diversion Pilot Project
and specifying the principles under which the pilot project will operate;
(2) Requiring the Department of Health community
mental health services and the Department of Human Services to provide
transitional housing, housing first, or other social services for the pilot
project; and
(3) Appropriating funds for the pilot project.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the pilot program applies to individuals who commit nonfelony offenses;
(2) Authorizing, rather than requiring, a deputy sheriff to either cite or arrest an offender, or refer the offender to the Department of Health if the offender has not had a conviction for a violent offense in the past three years;
(3) Clarifying that no later than September 1, 2018, the governor shall assign a state executive branch officer to serve as the responsible state officer for the pilot project;
(4) Replacing "offenses against drinking liquor in public or on a public place" to "offenses against the possession or consumption of liquor in public or on a public place"; and
(5) 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. 2147, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2147, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair |
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