STAND. COM. REP. NO. 751

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1163
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1163 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RELEASE OF PRE-TRIAL
     INMATES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to extend the authority of the
Director of Public Safety to grant emergency release of pretrial
inmates until June 30, 2000.

     Your Committee finds that, because of overcrowding in
correctional facilities, the Department of Public Safety needs a
release mechanism by which it can relieve overcrowding in the
pretrial population while considering public safety.  Your
Committee further finds that the Legislature, through Act 227,
Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, established strict controls over
which defendants qualify for emergency pretrial release.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by changing its
effective date from on approval to June 29, 1999.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.

 
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No. 1163, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1163, S.D. 1.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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