Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1123 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate matching funds to enable the work release program to provide more opportunities for qualifying inmates to work on county projects.

The Department of Public Safety and Community Alliance on Prisons testified in support of this bill.

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 H.B. No. 1123 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.