Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3072 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate bridge funds to keep the Obligation Restitution Behavior Insight Training Success (ORBITS) program running.

Your Committees received testimony in favor of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Simple Office Solutions, and verbal testimony from four individuals. The Judiciary provided comments on this measure.

Your Committees find that the ORBITS program is based on the philosophy of Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ), which balances the needs of the community, the offender, and the victim. The intent of BARJ is to teach the offender accountability, and to assist the offender in developing competencies and how to understand the importance of community safety. The appropriation is to be used primarily to fund First and Third Circuit Court ORBITS contracts, and to expand the ORBITS program to Kauai, Maui, and Molokai.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3072 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.