STAND. COM. REP. NO.  400-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2463

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2463 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISASTER RELIEF,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enhance the state's ability to recover from disasters by:

(1)  Authorizing the Director of Disaster Relief to use inmate labor to assist with disaster relief efforts; and

(2)  Establishing the inmate disaster relief labor program within the Department of Public Safety (DPS).

     The Department of Defense and a concerned individual supported this bill.  DPS supported the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Directing the Director of Disaster Relief to work with DPS in coordinating disaster relief plans using inmates; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2463, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2463, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

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CINDY EVANS, Chair