Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2009, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to require an informational meeting as a condition for the issuance of a permit for a halfway house.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of the measure from the Department of Public Safety and the Waianae Neighborhood Board. Testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by the Department of Health, the Department of Planning and Permitting for the City and County of Honolulu, and the Hawaii Youth Services Network.

Your Committee finds that requiring informational meetings as part of the zoning permit process for halfway houses may develop into a tool used by communities to prevent the establishment of halfway houses within their communities. Nevertheless, your Committee feels citizens have the right to be informed of development in their community.

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2009, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2009, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.