STAND. COM. REP. NO. 390

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1196
                                     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.B. No.
1196 entitled: 

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the bill is to extend until June 30, 2000,
the Emergency Release Program for pre-trial inmates.

     Testimony in support of the bill was received from the
Department of Public Safety.  Testimony in opposition to the
measure was received from the Department of the Prosecuting
Attorney, City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committees find that current circumstances compel the
extension until June 30, 2000, of the Emergency Release Program
affecting pre-trial inmates.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Correcting a statutory reference in Act 227, Session
          Laws of Hawaii 1998, concerning detainees found to be
          mentally defective or incapacitated;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to June 29, 1999; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of style and clarity.

 
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     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 are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1196, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1196, 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
                                   Judiciary and Hawaiian
                                   Affairs,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair              NESTOR GARCIA, Chair