Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 488, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to expand community service workline opportunities for qualifying female inmates.

Your Committee understands that female inmates are in dire need of workline opportunities that will help them obtain necessary life and job skills and establish a pattern of positive inmate behavior. This measure expands the workline program to enable the successful reintegration by female inmates into the communities and the reduction of currently high recidivism rates.

Your Committee has amended this measure by providing for appropriations in the amount of $1 to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 488, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 488, S.D. 2.