STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1034

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 110

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 110 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TO ESTABLISH A TASK FORCE TO CONSIDER WHETHER THE TWO DEPARTMENTS SHOULD ENTER INTO A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING TO HAVE THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS ADMINISTER AND OPERATE A COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAM FOR OFFENDERS ON HAWAII ISLAND,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Public Safety and Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to establish a task force to consider whether the two departments should enter into a memorandum of understanding to have the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands administer and operate a community-based reentry program for offenders on Hawaii Island.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Community Alliance on Prisons, and two individuals.

     Among the programs and services that may be offered by the Department of Public Safety are community-based programs which, unlike institution-based programs, reentry programs, or reintegration programs, are programs that are administered and operated outside of a correctional facility.  Generally, community-based programs are administered and operated by community agencies, faith-based organizations, non-profit organizations, and other similar entities, as opposed to state or other government agencies.  An alternative to the purchase of service contracts with community agencies and similar entities would be a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the administration and operation of a community-based program. 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting references to the formation of a task force;

     (2)  Adding the Office of Hawaiian Affairs as one of the three parties to consider whether to enter into a memorandum of understanding, as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has recently looked at the disparate treatment of native Hawaiians in our judicial system and has expressed concern at the number of native Hawaiians who are incarcerated.

     (3)  Changing the title and making other appropriate conforming amendments to reflect the changes described in paragraphs (1) and (2); and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 110, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 110, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair