STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1443-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2432
                                     S.D. 1
                                     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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
2432, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, 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 more efficiently manage
criminal justice and correctional resources by:

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to
          establish a sentencing simulation model that includes:

          (a)  A centralized computer-based criminal defendant
               population database (database);

          (b)  A computerized network for maintaining the
               database; and

          (c)  Computer modeling techniques that use information
               in the database to project the impact of different
               sentencing policies and proposals on future
               criminal justice and corrections populations and
               resources;

          and


 
 
 
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     (2)  Appropriating funds to develop, implement, and maintain
          a sentencing simulation model, provided that state
          funds are matched by federal funds from the Edward
          Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement
          Assistance Formula Grant Program.

     DPS, the Department of the Attorney General, the Honolulu
Police Department, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of
the City and County of Honolulu, the Office of the Public
Defender, Government Efficiency Teams, Inc., TJ Mahoney &
Associates, and the Community Alliance on Prisons testified in
support of this measure.  The Judiciary and the Hawaii Paroling
Authority testified in support of the intent of the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2432, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair