Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2500 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the criminal justice system in Hawaii by changing the status of the two part-time members of the Hawaii Paroling Authority (HPA) to full-time members so that HPA will comprise three full-time members.

The Department of Public Safety, HPA, and Government Efficiency Teams, Inc., testified in support of this bill.

Your Committees believe that this measure will allow the part-time members of HPA to be fairly compensated for the full-time work that they have already been performing for many years.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Labor and Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2500 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.