Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1123 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to enable work release programs to provide more opportunities for qualifying inmates to work on county projects.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Public Safety, the Community Alliance on Prisons, A Woman's Voice International, and four individuals.

This measure appropriates funds for work release programs for qualifying inmates to work on county projects. Your Committee finds that these programs are vital to breaking the cycle of recidivism and providing the critical life and job skills necessary for inmates to succeed in a post-incarceration setting.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1123, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1123, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.