STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1473

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1403

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1403, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PAROLING AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the operations and efficiency of the Hawaii Paroling Authority by converting two part-time members of the Authority to full-time status.

     This bill also appropriates funds necessary to convert the two part-time positions to full-time status.

     Comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Hawaii Paroling Authority and the Department of Human Resources Development.

     Your Committee finds that since 1980 the parole population has grown from 437 to 2,340 as of June 2006.  Your Committee further finds that, while the number of parole-related hearings has grown accordingly, the status of the two part-time Hawaii Paroling Authority Board members has not changed since the Board's inception in 1976.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Removing the word "expenses" in the section title of section 353-63, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to conform to the content of the section; and

(2)  Changing the effective date of the measure from July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2007.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1403, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1403, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair