STAND. COM. REP. NO.  270-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2474

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2474 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRISON LITIGATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create state law that is equivalent to a portion of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and that relates specifically to portions of the federal law that impose certain limitations and conditions on in forma pauperis prisoner lawsuits.

The Department of Public Safety and the Department of the Attorney General testified in support of this measure.  The State Representative of District 4 and the Community Alliance on Prisons testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2474, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2474, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair