Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2265, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer continuing supervisory and counseling functions of paroled individuals from the Hawaii Paroling Authority to the Department of Public Safety.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO and the Hawaii State Interagency Council on Homelessness. The Department of the Attorney General, the Hawaii Paroling Authority, and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee finds that presently there are certain areas of overlap between the services supplied by the Department of Public Safety's intake service centers and community correctional centers and the Hawaii Paroling Authority's adult supervisory and counseling services. Your Committee further finds that to be cost-efficient, consistent in the delivery of services, and able to maintain a continuum of care, the supervisory and counseling functions of the Hawaii Paroling Authority should be transferred to the Department of Public Safety. Your Committee notes that this transfer will not affect the other functions of the Hawaii Paroling Authority.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make the measure effective upon approval to allow the Department of Public Safety to develop rules and procedures; provided that the actual transfer of duties and functions shall be effective on July 1, 2007.

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. 2265, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2265, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.