STAND. COM. REP. NO. 399-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: H.B. No. 2864
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2864 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to provide adequate inmate facilities by:
(1) Requiring the Governor to initiate a process to develop the undeveloped portion of the Halawa Correctional Facility or other appropriate site for a new correctional treatment facility; and
(2) Enable the Director of Public Safety (Director) to enter into agreements to construct and operate the correctional treatment facility.
The Department of Public Safety testified in opposition to this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by replacing its contents with provisions:
(1) Requiring the Director to enter into a contract for the planning and design of a correctional treatment facility within 90 days of the effective date of the Act;
(2) Establishing guidelines for the selection of an operator of the facility;
(3) Requiring the Director to report to the Legislature by February 1, 2005, on the progress of the plan, design, operation, location, and financing of the facility; and
(4) Requiring a feasibility study for the future use, disposition, or development of the existing Oahu Community Correctional Center site.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2864, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2864, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs,
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____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair |
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