Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2819 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to convert the current two part-time members of the Hawaii Paroling Authority (HPA) to full-time and to prohibit private employment of HPA members.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Public Safety (DPS), HPA, and Government Efficiency Teams, Inc.

Your Committee finds that the current composition of one full-time chair and two part-time members of the HPA is obsolete. First enacted in 1976, the scheme of one full-time chair and two part-time members served the work demands well at the time. However, the caseload of the HPA has increased exponentially in recent years due to mandatory sentences and an increased prison population. Your Committee agrees that having three full-time members is necessary to meet today's needs. Furthermore, the position of HPA member increasingly requires knowledge and skill in rehabilitation which can be more readily accumulated with full-time experience.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2819, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2819, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.