Appropriates CIP funds for a PSD-run 600-700 secure bed facility for convicted drug offenders and requires PSD to provide clinical and psychiatric substance abuse treatment, education, job development, job training, etc. for convicted drug offenders or those on probation for drug offense.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the prevalence of crystal methamphetamine use, and the concomitant personal, property, and violent crime amounts to what many government officials call an "ice epidemic". Everyone is greatly affected by ice as it storms through our State, leaving a path of destruction. Hawaii is struggling to find effective solutions while rebuilding communities devastated by the drug.

The purpose of this measure is to battle this ice storm and to provide permanent solutions for individual users by appropriating funds for a secure six hundred to seven hundred bed transitional facility. The facility shall be designed and managed by the department of public safety and shall include clinical and psychiatric substance abuse treatment, education, job development, job-training, and associated services for participants who are convicted drug offenders or on probation for a drug offense.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2005-2006, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary fiscal year 2006-2007, for a capital improvement project consisting of a secure, six hundred to seven hundred-bed transitional facility designed and managed by the department of public safety. The facility shall be designed and managed by the department of public safety and shall include clinical and psychiatric substance abuse treatment, education, job development, job-training, and associated services for participants who are convicted drug offenders or on probation for a drug offense. The director of public safety may assign a percentage of bed space to post-incarcerated individuals in transition.

SECTION 3. The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2008, shall lapse as of that date.

SECTION 4. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of public safety for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.