Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 298, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the executive branch to initiate the process of developing the undeveloped portion of the Halawa Correctional Facility site for a new correctional facility.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Community Alliance on Prisons and a private individual. Testimony in opposition was received from the Lieutenant Governor, Department of Public Safety, and a private individual.

The site of the Halawa Correctional Facility has been the subject of much discussion and debate in recent years. The issues concern prison overcrowding, which necessitates the relocation of prisoners to mainland penal facilities; rehabilitation, which concerns the best practices methodology for treatment and rehabilitation of drug users and addicts; and costs of paying for construction. These complex issues are intertwined, conflicting, and interdependent.

To facilitate further discussion on this important and complex issue, your Committee has amended the measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050.

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 H.B. No. 298, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 298, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.