STAND. COM. REP. NO.  116

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1067

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1067 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 of this bill is to ensure that youth committed to the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility will not be transferred to adult correctional facilities where they could be exposed to serious adult offenders and subjected to possible physical, mental, and sexual assault by repealing section 352-28, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which authorizes the Office of Youth Services Executive Director, with approval of the Family Court, to transfer youth, who are at least 16 years of age, to an adult correctional facility for disciplinary or other reasons.

     The Department of Human Services, Office of Youth Services, and Community Alliance on Prisons testified in support of this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1067 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair