Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1634 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Department of Public Safety to begin work on a new correctional facility.

Specifically, the bill requires the department to immediately initiate the planning and design process to develop a correctional facility to house 1,000 to 1,200 inmates in an appropriate and economically feasible site, on public or private lands.

The Department of Public Safety submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill to:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1634, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1634, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.