STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2733
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2947
S.D. 2
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. 2947, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to establish criteria for contracts between the Department of Public Safety and out-of-state facilities that house Hawaii inmates.
Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to ensure the proper handling and care of inmates transferred to out-of-state correctional facilities.
Your Committee has amended this measure as follows:
(1) To correctly reference section 352-16.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, rather than section 352-16.32;
(2) To clarify that policies and procedures for disciplinary action refer to inmates, not correctional officers;
(3) To clarify that, for purposes of investigations by the ombudsman, out-of-state facilities shall be subject to chapter 96, Hawaii Revised Statutes (the ombudsman law);
(4) To remove reference to inmate release on furlough or work release; and
(5) To make technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of style, clarity, 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. 2947, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2947, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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