STAND. COM. REP. NO. 641
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 245
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 245 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to ensure gender parity for incarcerated females by as compared to incarcerated males by:
(1) Providing a range and quality of programming to women in correction facilities that is equivalent to the range and quality of programming offered to males; and
(2) Requiring the Office of Youth Services to develop and implement gender-responsive, community-based programs for adjudicated females.
This bill also appropriates funds for fiscal year 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 to provide for these programs.
Your Committee finds that although the needs of incarcerated women are different from the needs of incarcerated men, they are still entitled to the same types of opportunities such as continuing education, self-improvement classes, and job skills training. This bill ensures that equal opportunity and access to programming is provided for incarcerated females.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Deleting section 1;
(2) Standardizing references of "female offenders" to "juvenile females";
(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to promote further discussion on the measure; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 245, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 245, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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