Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 45, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Office of Youth Services to provide notice to the Legislature, through the budgetary process, when incarcerated juveniles from the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility are transferred to an out-of-state youth correctional facility.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Hawaii Juvenile Justice Project, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and two individuals. Testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by Department of Human Services, the Office of Youth Services, and the Hawaii Juvenile Justice State Advisory Council.

This measure is designed to provide notice to the Legislature, through the budgetary process, when juveniles housed in the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility are transferred to an out-of-state youth correctional facility. Your Committee finds that this notice requirement will enable the Legislature to remain apprised as to the number of Hawaii juveniles housed in out-of-state youth correctional facilities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, non-substantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

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. 45, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 45, S.D. 2.