STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2542

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2432
                                        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. 2432 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 appropriate $71,018 for the
development, implementation, and maintenance of a sentencing
simulation model to forecast prison populations and ensure the
efficient allocation of existing and proposed resources,
including alternatives to incarceration, for all convicts.

     Your Committee finds that the felon population of the Hawaii
prison system rose from 300 in 1975 to 1,000 in 1983 due to
longer sentences and the greater use of incarceration.  Prison
capacity, which more than doubled between 1974 and 1984, could
not keep pace with a prison population that increased six-fold in
the same period.  The development, implementation, and
maintenance of a sentencing simulation model would have made it
possible to assess the impact of proposed sentencing policies on
correctional system and community resources at the time, thereby
averting the unintentional overcrowding of the Hawaii prison
system.  In light of the fact that Hawaii's combined jail and
prison population grew from 2,284 on June 30, 1989, to 4,729 on

 
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June 30, 1999, in the midst of concerns over prison overcrowding,
a sentencing simulation model is apparently still needed.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the sum appropriated for the development,
          implementation, and maintenance of the sentencing
          simulation model to an unspecified amount; and

     (2)  Requiring that state moneys be matched by federal
          moneys from the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local
          Law Enforcement Assistance Formula Grant Program.

     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.
2432, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2432, 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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