STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1207

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1067

       H.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1067, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF YOUTH TO AN ADULT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the authority of the Executive Director of the Office of Youth Services to transfer youth committed to the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility to adult correctional facilities for disciplinary or other reasons.

     Your Committee finds that this measure supports the State's efforts to comply with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act which, among other things, prohibits the placement of youth in adult correctional facilities except under limited circumstances and requires "sight and sound" separation between juvenile and adult offenders.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1067, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair