Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 962 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to develop, implement, and maintain a sentencing simulation model for Hawaii's criminal justice system.

The Department of Public Safety, Department of the Attorney General, Corrections Population Management Commission, Office of the Public Defender, Police Department of the County of Maui, Honolulu Police Department, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, ACLU of Hawaii, TJ Mahoney & Associates, and three concerned citizens testified in support of this bill. The Judiciary supported the intent of this bill.

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 H.B. No. 962 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.