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. 2943, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to enable the hiring of monitors for out-of-state correctional facilities housing Hawaii inmates.

Your Committee understands that the proposed monitors will be employed by the Department of Public Safety to work onsite at the out-of-state correctional facilities housing Hawaii inmates. These monitors are needed to keep track of conditions and operations at the correctional facilities and provide a readily accessible channel for Hawaii inmates to communicate their grievances and concerns.

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. 2943, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.