STAND. COM. REP. NO. 270

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.C.R. No. 35
                                     H.D. 1
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and
Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No.
35, entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
     SAFETY TO EXPLORE AND FUND ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION FOR
     NONVIOLENT FEMALE OFFENDERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to encourage
the implementation of alternatives to incarceration for
nonviolent female offenders.

     The American Civil Liberties Union, the Hawaii State
Commission on the Status of Women, the Sex Abuse Treatment
Center, the Community Alliance on Prisons, the Women's Coalition,
the residents of the TJ Mahoney & Associates Transitional
Program, and members of the public testified in support of this
measure.  The Department of Public Safety (PSD) testified in
support of the intent of this measure, but commented that the
scope of this measure should be expanded to include the Hawaii
Paroling Authority and the Judiciary.

     Upon further consideration, your Committees have amended
this concurrent resolution by incorporating the recommendations
of the PSD.  Specifically, your Committees amended this measure
by:


 
 
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     (1)  Urging the participation of the Hawaii Paroling
          Authority and the Judiciary;

     (2)  Changing its title to read: "HOUSE CONCURRENT
          RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, THE
          HAWAII PAROLING AUTHORITY, AND THE JUDICIARY TO EXPLORE
          AND FUND ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION FOR NONVIOLENT
          FEMALE OFFENDERS;" and

     (3)  Transmitting certified copies to the Chairperson of the
          Hawaii Paroling Authority and the Administrative
          Director of the Courts.


     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary
and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 35,
as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the
Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No.
35, H.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Public Safety
                                   and Military Affairs and
                                   Judiciary and Hawaiian
                                   Affairs,



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PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair              NESTOR R. GARCIA, Chair