STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1138

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1400

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 1400 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow State-employed adult corrections officers to purchase uniforms and uniform accessories from Correctional Industries.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety.

     Your Committee finds that Correctional Industries uses inmates to assemble and manufacture adult correctional officer uniforms and that the Department of Public Safety is required to issue each newly recruited officer four sets of uniforms, and allow for the replacement of one uniform per year for each officer at the Department's expense.  Your Committee further finds that it is important that adult correctional officers have more flexibility in the replacement of their uniforms.  To this end, it is the intent of your Committee to allow correctional officers to purchase additional sets of approved uniforms and uniform accessories from Correctional Industries at their own expense.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1400, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair