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. 613 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Interagency Council on Intermediate Sanctions to carry out its five-year strategic plan designed to reduce adult offender recidivism and institutionalize enhancements to the Hawaii criminal justice system.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Health, the Department of Public Safety, the Hawaii Paroling Authority, the Judiciary, the Office of the Public Defender, the Community Alliance on Prisons, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the requested appropriation is necessary to implement the five-year strategic plan of the Interagency Council on Intermediate Sanctions. This strategic plan is part of a collaborative effort among various State agencies with the goal of reducing Hawaii's adult offender recidivism rates by utilizing an "evidence-based practice" approach to achieve a significant recidivism rate reduction in a cost-effective manner.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 613, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 613, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.