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. 71 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require that adult women charged with or convicted of crimes and juvenile females adjudicated for offenses that would be crimes if committed by an adult or who are adjudicated delinquents, be provided a range and quality of programming substantially equivalent to the range and quality offered to males.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, the State Commission on the Status of Women, T.J. Mahoney and Associates, the Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, the Community Alliance on Prisons, the Associated Builders and Contractors, and several concerned citizens. Your Committee received testimony in support of the intent of this measure from the Office of Youth Services.

Your Committee finds that although much effort is being expended to improve services for female offenders it is appropriate that the Legislature make a strong statement to support, reinforce, and perpetuate the good work underway.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 71, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 71, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Human Services and Housing.