STAND. COM. REP. NO.939
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 996
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. 996 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate general funds to the Department of Public Safety for substance abuse treatment programs at several correctional facilities.
Your Committee finds that there is a strong relationship between drug use and crime. Specifically, the majority of Hawaii's inmates are substance abusers and a majority of parole violations involve substance abuse. The failure to assess inmates for substance abuse problems and to provide substance abuse education and treatment in prison will perpetuate the vicious cycle between drug abuse and crime. Your Committee further finds that the Department of Public Safety must focus on changing the lifestyles of these individuals.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Correcting a technical error. Specifically, this measure amends section 9 by replacing "Women's correctional facility" with "Waiawa correctional facility", in order to render section 9 consistent with section 4; and
(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes.
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. 996, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 996, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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