Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 962 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate state matching funds of $47,177 for fiscal year 2001-2002 to develop, implement, and maintain a sentencing simulation model.

The Judiciary, the Attorney General, the Department of Public Safety, the Office of the Public Defender, the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, the Corrections Population Management Commission, the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, the Honolulu Police Department, the Hawaii County Police Department, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Community Alliance on Prisons, the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and a concerned citizen testified in support of this bill.

Your Committees find that continuing state matching funds for the second year of a three-year federal grant is a high priority. The information this model will provide for the state will greatly assist policy-makers in their efforts to make informed decisions in every aspect of the criminal justice system.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 962 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.