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. 3010 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for community placement programs for female offenders transitioning from prison to the community.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, A Woman's Voice International, Community Alliance on Prisons, TJ Mahoney & Associates, Ka Hale Ho`ala Hou No Na Wahine, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaii Women's Coalition, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and Drug Policy Action Group. Fifteen individuals also submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that community placement programs are the final phase of transitional programming for women inmates and are a key component to the re-entry process.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

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. 3010, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3010, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.