STAND. COM. REP. NO. 938-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2074
                                     S.D. 2
                                     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
Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2074,
S.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committees, is
to establish a task force to develop and recommend a plan to
increase gender appropriate programming in the criminal justice
system.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Public Safety and the American
Civil Liberties Union.  Your Committees received testimony in
support of this measure, but expressing a preference for the
language in the companion House bill, from the Hawaii State
Commission on the Status of Women, the Community Alliance on
Prisons, and several individuals from T.J. Mahoney and
Associates.  The Office of Youth Services provided testimony in
support of the intent of this measure.  Out of Prison Services
provided testimony in opposition to this measure, but in support
of the companion House bill.

     Your Committees find that female offenders are not offered
the range and quality of programming appropriate to their profile
and needs.  Your Committees note that male offenders are offered
a wider range of programming and that females deserve equivalent

 
 
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opportunities.  It is the intent of this measure that the
Director of Public Safety and the advisory council promptly
address those already identified needs for female offenders.  It
is also the intent of this measure that a collaboration involving
the Director, the advisory council, and other state and private
agencies is initiated to ensure that a full range of gender
appropriate services become and remain available.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting its
contents and inserting the contents of H.B. 1847 H.D. 2.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Human
Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2074, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2074, S.D.
2, 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 Human
                                   Services and Housing,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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DENNIS ARAKAKI, Chair              NESTOR GARCIA, Chair