STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1204-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 2976
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. 2976, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to support a short-term solution to prison overcrowding by making an emergency appropriation:
(1) To house inmates in the federal detention center in Honolulu or in mainland correctional facilities; and
(2) For transportation and other operational costs.
The Department of Public Safety and the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney testified in support of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion on this matter; 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. 2976, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2976, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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