STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2797

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3054

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3054 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Auditor to conduct a financial and management audit of the Department of Public Safety's commissary operations and commissaries in out-of-state correctional facilities where Hawaii inmates are confined.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Community Alliance on Prisons and a concerned individual.

     Your Committee finds that an evaluation of commissaries serving Hawaii inmates will help ensure that these programs are being managed and operated in a sound manner.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3054 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair