STAND. COM. REP. NO. 164

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1121
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
1121 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A SENTENCING SIMULATION
     MODEL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to create a centralized criminal
defendant database and develop a sentencing simulation model.

     Your Committee finds that criminal justice data is currently
maintained separately by various agencies, including the
Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Public
Safety, and the Judiciary.  Each agency maintains data from
different components of the criminal justice system.  Your
Committee further finds that the integration of the data from
these agencies will permit a more accurate and detailed picture
of the dynamics of the criminal justice system.  In addition,
your Committee recognizes that there is a strong need to develop
a computer modeling technique in order to project future prison
populations and predict the impact of different sentencing
policies and proposals in order to address problems that
currently plague our criminal justice system.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Public
Safety, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City
and County of Honolulu, the Department of the Prosecuting

 
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Attorney of the County of Maui, the Honolulu Police Department,
and the County of Hawaii Police Department.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by:

     (1)  Decreasing the appropriation amount from $250,000 to
          $122,000 for fiscal year 1999-2000;

     (2)  Decreasing the appropriation amount from $150,000 to
          $85,000 for fiscal year 2000-2001; and

     (3)  Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1121, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1121, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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