STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1619

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 1444

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1444, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PURPOSE OF THE HAWAII YOUTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the purpose of the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility is to provide services to, and custody, rehabilitation, and institutional care for youth committed to the facility by state courts, and to prepare these youth for reentry into their communities and families.

     The Office of Youth Services, Community Alliance on Prisons, and American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney provided comments.

     Your Committee finds that the amendments to the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility law remove the terms "incarceration" and "punishment" and stress that the goal of the facility is to provide youth with rehabilitative and reentry services.

     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. 1444, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair