STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO.942

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1138

S.D. 1

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. 1138 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds and authorize the establishment of positions for programs of the Judiciary, Department of the Attorney General, and Department of Public Safety providing alternatives to incarceration.

More specifically, this measure appropriates funds or authorizes the establishment of positions, or both, for the following programs:

(1) To be expended or established by the Judiciary:

(A) $41,510 for fiscal year 2003-2004, and $116,750 for fiscal year 2004-2005, for personnel and operating expenses to support the work of the Interagency Council on Intermediate Sanctions;

(B) One full-time equivalent program coordinator position to implement the goals of the Interagency Council on Intermediate Sanctions for fiscal year 2004-2005; and

(C) $24,180 for fiscal year 2003-2004, and $24,180 for fiscal year 2004-2005, for assessments of pre-sentence and post-sentence offenders;

(2) To be expended or established by the Department of Public Safety:

(A) $60,000 for fiscal year 2003-2004, and $60,000 for fiscal year 2004-2005, for personnel and operating expenses to provide mental health assessments of offenders;

(B) One full-time equivalent mental health assessor position to provide mental health assessments of offenders for fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005;

(C) $14,820 for fiscal year 2003-2004, and $14,820 for fiscal year 2004-2005, for assessments of pretrial detainees, furloughed inmates, and parolees;

(D) $220,000 for fiscal year 2004-2005, for assessing and planning for the management information systems needs to support intermediate sanctions research;

(E) $10,000 for fiscal year 2003-2004, for interfacing the Department of Public Safety's corrections information system with the Department of the Attorney General's criminal justice information system; and

(F) $12,000 for fiscal year 2003-2004, and $12,000 for fiscal year 2004-2005, for cognitive behavioral skills training;

and

(3) To be expended by the Department of the Attorney General: $50,000 for fiscal year 2003-2004, and $75,000 for fiscal year 2004-2005, for conducting research on recidivism reduction.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the sums that are appropriated to blank amounts in order to provide for the continued discussion of these matters;

(2) Changing the number of positions that are authorized to be established to blank full-time equivalents in order to provide for the continued discussion of these matters; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 1138, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1138, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair