Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2946, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist the Department of Public Safety (DPS) in improving Hawaii's correctional facilities by specifying the Correction Population Management Commission's recommendation-making responsibilities.

DPS, Community Alliance on Prisons, A Woman's Voice International, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

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 S.B. No. 2946, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.