Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 467, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the range and quality of programs offered to women and girls in corrections by requiring these programs to be substantially equivalent to those offered to males by:

(1) Requiring the Department to Public Safety and Office of

(2) Appropriating funds to support these programs.

The Hawaii Juvenile Justice Project, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Maui County Committee on the Status of Women, Out of Prison Services, TJ Mahoney & Associates, League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Women's Coalition, A Woman's Voice International, Community Alliance on Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill. The Hawaii Paroling Authority and Office of Youth Services supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Public Safety opposed this bill. The Department of the Attorney General provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting provisions requiring gender parity and shifting

(2) Changing references to grants-in-aid to grants that are

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity,

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 467, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 467, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.