STAND

STAND. COM. REP. 1091

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1138

S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1138, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTERMEDIATE SANCTIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Interagency Council on Intermediate Sanctions' five-year strategic plan to reduce adult offender recidivism through the use of intermediate sanctions.

Specifically, the bill appropriates funds for:

(1) Personnel and operating expenses of the Council;

(2) A full-time coordinator position;

(3) Personnel and operating expenses to provide mental health assessment of offenders;

(4) A full-time mental health assessor position;

(5) Pre-sentencing and post-sentencing assessments;

(6) Assessments for pre-trial detainees, furloughed inmates, and parolees;

(7) Conducting research on recidivism reduction;

(8) Assessing and planning for the Management Information Systems needs to support intermediate sanctions research;

(9) Interfacing the Department of Public Safety's Corrections Information System with the Department of the Attorney General's Criminal Justice Information System; and

(10) Cognitive behavioral skills training.

Your Committees received unanimous support for the bill from numerous testifiers including, the Judiciary, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Health, the Hawaii Paroling Authority, the Office of the Public Defender, and the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committees find that the appropriations will reduce adult offender recidivism by institutionalizing the collaborated enhancements to Hawaii's criminal justice system. The funding will allow local agencies to continue their screening and assessment of offenders, train staff on best practices, form a continuum of services, and meet quality assurance requirements in assessment and treatment services.

Your Committees has left the appropriation amounts blank to allow further discussions on this matter.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1138, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary,

____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair		____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair