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 S.B. No. 119, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Office of Youth Services (OYS) to provide a range and quality of programming for female adult and juvenile offenders that are substantially equivalent to male inmates. An unspecified sum is appropriated for this purpose.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by OYS, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Community Alliance on Prisons, TJ Mahoney & Associates, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, and fourteen individuals. DPS supported the intent of this bill.

Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made to correct drafting errors for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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 S.B. No. 119, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 119, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.