STAND. COM. REP. NO. 226-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2595
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and
Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No.
2595 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT FOR
     CRIMINAL OFFENDERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a special fund for
the purpose of supporting integrated case management and a
continuum of substance abuse treatment services for criminal
offenders.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Public Safety, the Department of
Health, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Community
Alliance on Prisons, and T.J. Mahoney and Associates.  Your
Committees received testimony in support of the intent of this
measure from the Judiciary, the Department of Taxation, the
Office of the Public Defender, and several concerned citizens.
Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure
from the Wine Institute, Volcano Vineyards, and Anheuser Busch
Companies.  The Office of Youth Services submitted testimony
commenting on this measure.

     Your Committees find that this measure will aggressively
address a critical challenge facing our state.  Your Committees
found the concerned citizens testifying in support of the intent
of this measure especially compelling.  These citizens described

 
 
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an effort recently begun to carry out a large-scale, community-
based system of wellness centers to provide ho`oponopono to those
offenders amenable to rehabilitation.  While recognizing the
state must observe the procurement code, your Committees strongly
urge and respectfully request that, should this measure become
law, the Executive branch would continue to look favorably upon
establishing a working relationship with groups sharing the
grass-roots support, authenticity, and cultural sensitivity
displayed by those that testified before your Committees.

     Your Committees have amended this measure to include
juvenile offenders among those served by the moneys in the
substance abuse and prevention special fund.  Further, your
Committees have also amended this measure to include the Office
of Youth Services within the interagency cooperative agreement.

     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.
2595, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2595, 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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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair            NESTOR GARCIA, Chair