STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2540

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2220
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2220 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REMOVAL OF NUISANCE
     SEAWEED,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Director of Public
Safety, with the approval of the Governor, to enter into an
agreement with the mayor of a county to use inmate labor from a
community correctional center to remove nuisance seaweed from the
shoreline and nearshore waters of the State.

     Your Committee finds that nuisance seaweed makes the beaches
unsanitary and smelly, and unsightly to beach users, both
residents and tourists alike.  The use of inmate labor for
different functions has been used in the past and provides the
inmates with an opportunity to learn new skills and productively
use their time while providing a county with labor at lower cost.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by adding the prefatory
language "Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
contrary," to the first sentence in section 2.  This is intended
to prevent confusion with the provision in section 354D-12(a),
Hawaii Revised Statutes, which authorizes the administrator of
the correctional industries program to contract with "any labor

 
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organization, private profit or nonprofit organization, or
federal or state agency" to train or employ inmates.

     Technical nonsubstantive amendments have also been made to
the bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2220, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2220, S.D. 1.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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