STAND. COM. REP. NO.  111

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1088

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1088 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide necessary medical and mental health treatment to inmates and detainees in an efficient and expedient manner by establishing proceedings to authorize the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to provide such treatment to inmates and detainees in its custody when those inmates and detainees refuse the treatment.

     DPS testified in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1088 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Health.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

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HENRY J. C. AQUINO, Chair