Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1393, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to divide the Department of Public Safety into two separate departments.

This bill establishes a new Department of Corrections, transfers correctional programs from the Department of Public Safety to the Department of Corrections, and changes the name of the Department of Public Safety to the Department of Law Enforcement to more accurately reflect its mission.

In addition, this measure transfers the functions and authority heretofore exercised by the Department of Education and the Hawaii State Public Library System, relating to contractual security services for their respective facilities, to the Department of Law Enforcement.

Your Committee received testimony from the Hawaii State Public Library System opposing the transfer of contractual security services for its facilities to the Department of Law Enforcement.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Public Safety performs two very separate (and separable) functions. The Corrections Division manages the prisons and inmates and is responsible for the care, rehabilitation, and treatment of prisoners. The Law Enforcement Division provides security for public buildings, administers a statewide program of enforcement and investigation of controlled substances, and provides sheriff's services such as service of warrants.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1393, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1393, S.D. 2.