Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 473, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require public informational meetings as part of the county zoning permit process for group living facilities (halfway houses) for convicted sexual offenders or people convicted of other violent offenses.

The Department of Public Safety and the Waianae Neighborhood Board testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 473, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 473, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.