STAND. COM. REP. NO.  400

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 386

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 386 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PAROLE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish and appropriate funds for an earned-time program that allows inmates to reduce their minimum term upon demonstrating successful progress toward the completion of rehabilitative programs.

     The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, the Community Alliance on Prisons, the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Public Safety, Hawaii Paroling Authority, and Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu opposed this measure.

     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 H.B. No. 386 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair