STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1258-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 1138

S.D. 1

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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1138, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Interagency Council on Intermediate Sanctions' (Council) five-year strategic plan to reduce adult offender recidivism through the use of intermediate sanctions. Specifically, this bill appropriates funds for:

(1) Personnel and operating expenses to support the work of the Council;

(2) Personnel and operating expenses to provide mental health assessments of offenders;

(3) Assessments of pre-sentence and post-sentence offenders;

(4) Assessments of pretrial detainees, furloughed inmates, and parolees;

(5) Conducting research on recidivism reduction;

(6) Assessing and planning for the management information systems needed to support intermediate sanctions research;

(7) Interfacing the Department of Public Safety's (DPS) corrections information system with the Department of the Attorney General's (AG) criminal justice information system; and

(8) Cognitive behavioral skills training.

DPS, AG, the Hawaii Paroling Authority, Department of Health, Judiciary, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, and Community Alliance on Prisons testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to promote further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1138, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1138, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair