STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2348

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3109

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred S.B. No. 3109 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CORRECTIONAL PROGRAM REVOLVING FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to eliminate the Correctional Program Revolving Fund by repealing section 353-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Public Safety.

     Your Committee finds that the Revolving Fund's primary objective, to offset the costs of correctional programs for inmates through the collection of fees from the inmates that participated in the programs, has not been acted upon by the Department of Public Safety since 1996.  Your Committee also finds that the Revolving Fund contains no moneys.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity.

     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 S.B. No. 3109, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3109, S.D. 1, 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