STAND. COM. REP. 2652
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 2976
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2976 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 measure is to reduce overcrowding in Hawaii's correctional facilities.
This measure accomplishes this by making an emergency appropriation to the Department of Public Safety to allow the department to:
(1) Contract for additional correctional beds on the mainland and at the federal detention center; and
(2) Pay for transportation costs to transfer inmates to mainland correctional facilities.
Your Committee amended this measure by deleting the amount of the appropriation to facilitate continuing discussion of this issue and to obtain a more accurate determination of current costs.
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. 2976, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2976, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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