STAND. COM. REP. NO. 8-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1955
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to
which was referred H.B. No. 1955 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CORRECTIONS POPULATION
     MANAGEMENT COMMISSION,"


begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to expand the membership of the
Corrections Population Management Commission.  As received by
your committee, the bill added a member from the substance abuse
treatment field.  In addition, the original bill specified that
the speaker of the house of representatives select a member who
is a provider of services for exiting offenders and that the
president of the senate select a member who is a scholar or
expert in gender-specific corrections programs.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Public Safety, Government Efficiency Teams, the
Community Alliance on Prisons, and T.J. Mahoney and Associates.

     Your committee finds that the testimony made a persuasive
case for amending the bill to once again include members of the
legislature.  The testimony of the Department of Public Safety
testimony that warned of the danger of the Commission becoming
too big for consensus was balanced by your committee against the
drafter's original intent to provide participation from concerned
members of the civilian community.  Therefore, your committee has
also amended the bill to direct the governor to select a tenth

 
 
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member from a broader list of nominees.  This list would not be
limited to substance abuse treatment specialists, scholars, or
providers of exiting needs, but instead could include any person
nominated by members of the public under the more inclusive
category of being knowledgeable of the concerns related to
reintegration of offenders into our community.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1955, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
1955, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   NESTOR R. GARCIA, Chair