STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1043

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1006
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No.
1006, H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A SENTENCING SIMULATION
     MODEL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to create a centralized criminal
defendant database and develop a sentencing simulation model.

     Your Committee finds that criminal justice data is currently
maintained separately by various agencies, including the
Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Public
Safety, and the Judiciary.  Each agency maintains data from
different components of the criminal justice system.  Your
Committee believes that the integration of data from these
agencies will permit a more accurate and detailed picture of the
dynamics of the criminal justice system.  Your Committee notes
that this need for collaboration and sharing of information was
recognized by the state Law Enforcement Coalition, which voted to
make this measure its top priority in their legislative package.
In addition, your Committee recognizes that there is a strong
need to develop a computer modeling technique to predict the
impact various sentencing proposals would have on future prison
populations, so that the Legislature may make informed decisions
when establishing new sentencing policies.


 
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     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Public
Safety, the Judiciary, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney
of the City and County of Honolulu, the Honolulu Police
Department, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by:

     (1)  Increasing the appropriation amount from $1 to $122,000
          for fiscal year 1999-2000; and

     (2)  Increasing the appropriation amount from $1 to $85,000
          for fiscal year 2000-2001.

     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.
1006, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1006, H.D.
2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



                                   ______________________________
                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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