Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2946 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify the Corrections Population Management Commission's recommendation-making responsibility.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Public Safety, A Woman's Voice International, the Community Alliance on Prisons, and five individuals.

Your Committee finds that a Corrections Population Management Commission is a necessity for any jurisdiction that is attempting to successfully manage its correction population.

Your Committee has amended this measure to incorporate the recommendation of a faculty member of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Chaminade University. This amendment requires that research activities conducted through the Commission be performed by, overseen by, or in consultation with an agreed neutral party.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2946, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2946, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.