Report Title:

PSD; Substance Abuse Treatment Facility; Appropriation

Description:

Appropriates funds for a secure 600 to 700-bed substance abuse treatment facility designed and operated by the department of public safety.  Requires the department to provide treatment, education, job training and development, and associated services for convicted drug offenders and certain probationers.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	864
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the prevalence of crystal methamphetamine use, and the concomitant personal, property, and violent crime amounts to what many government officials call an "ice epidemic".  Everyone is greatly affected by ice as it storms through our State, leaving a path of destruction.  Hawaii is struggling to find effective solutions while rebuilding communities devastated by the drug.

     The purpose of this Act is to battle this ice storm and to provide permanent solutions for individual users by appropriating funds for a secure six hundred to seven hundred bed transitional facility.  The facility shall be designed and managed by the department of public safety and shall include clinical and psychiatric substance abuse treatment, education, job training and development, and associated services for participants who are convicted drug offenders or on probation for a drug offense.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $       , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007-2008, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009, for a secure six hundred to seven hundred bed transitional facility designed and operated by the department of public safety, who shall provide services to convicted drug offenders and offenders on probation for a drug offenses, including clinical and psychiatric substance abuse treatment, education, job training and development, and associated services.  The director of public safety may assign a percentage of bed space to post-incarcerated individuals in transition.

     SECTION 3.  The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of public safety for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

INTRODUCED BY:

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