STAND. COM. REP. NO.  619-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 1818

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1818, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support the successful transition from incarceration back to the community by directing the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to offer cognitive behavioral therapy with native Hawaiian holistic interventions in reentry/reintegration programs at Hawaii's correctional facilities.

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs; American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii; The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii; The Institute for Family Enrichment, LLC; Community Alliance on Prisons; Na Koa Ikaika; Ohana Ho'opakele; and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  DPS and the Department of the Attorney General testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1818, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1818, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair