Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1076 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Department of Public Safety's (DPS) drug treatment programs statewide.

DPS, the Community Alliance on Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union, Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and a concerned citizen testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill allocates monies for substance abuse treatment at Waiawa Correctional Facility, Halawa Correctional Facility, and the Kauai and Maui Community Correctional Centers. DPS testified that this bill would fill in gaps in existing programs.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1076, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1076, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.