Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2334, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility to ensure that funding for its operations is maintained through the end of the 2005-2006 fiscal year.

Your Committee finds that immediate action must be taken to fund improvements at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility, especially in light of the comprehensive agreement reached by the United States Department of Justice and the State to address serious concerns about the youth facility.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and consistency.

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 S.B. No. 2334, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2334, S.D. 2.