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. 859, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to establish an earned-time program to give inmates incentives for rehabilitation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Office of the Public Defender, the Community Alliance on Prisons, Government Efficiency Teams, Inc., Urbatek Cities and concerned individuals. The Department of Public Safety supported the intent of the measure. Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the Department of the Attorney General, the Hawaii Paroling Authority, and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu.

Your Committee finds that an earned-time program would promote public safety by motivating offenders to actively participate in their rehabilitation.

Your Committee has amended the bill by:

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. 859, 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. 859, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.