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. 36 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to exempt the procurement of goods and services for inmate facilities from the state procurement code when inmate trust accounts, and not state funds, are utilized.

Testimony in favor of this measure was received from a private individual. Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from the Department of Public Safety, Department of Budget and Finance, and State Procurement Office.

Your Committee finds that this measure will clarify that the resale of goods and services in commissary or store operations in correctional facilities will be exempt from the procurement code only when inmate trust funds are used.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity and consistency.

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. 36, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 36, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.