STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1281

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1274
                                     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
Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1274 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received, is to transfer the
responsibility of the administration of the night security
program for selected public schools from the Department of Public
Safety to the Department of Education.

     Your Committees received testimony in strong support of this
measure from the Department of Education.

     Upon further consideration, your Committees have amended
this bill by appending the general language reflected in H.B. No.
156, H.D.1, and H.B. No. 157, H.D.2, which were previously heard
before your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs.

     The language inserted from H.B. 156, H.D.1 accomplishes the
following:

     (1)  Authorizes the governor to proceed with the development
          of privately-developed in-state correctional facilities
          or an in-state correctional facility using public or
          private funds, subject to the developer obtaining a
          certificate of participation if private funds are used;
          and


 
 
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     (2)  Provides for community partnering to mitigate the
          negative aspects of building a correctional facility;
          and

     (3)  Makes all proposals public within 72 hours of receipt;
          and

     (4)  Requires community concurrence through a petition.

     The language inserted from H.B. 157, H.D.2 addresses the
prison overcrowding issue by continuing the comprehensive
schedule of incarceration alternatives and continuing
rehabilitative and assistive programs for arrestees and
incarcerated persons by doing the following:

     (1)  Continues the comprehensive schedule of alternatives to
          incarceration established by Act 25, Special Session
          Laws of Hawaii 1995; and

     (2)  Continues the rehabilitative and assistance programs
          for arrestees and incarcerated persons established by
          Act 25, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 1995.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Education
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1274, as amended herein,
and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1274, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Finance.

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

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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KEN ITO, Chair                     NESTOR GARCIA, Chair