STAND. COM. REP. NO. 944

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 218

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 218, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CORRECTIONS POPULATION MANAGEMENT COMMISSION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to add the Administrator of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and a member of the public who is knowledgeable about issues relating to the criminal justice system and has substantial experience or expertise in traditional Native Hawaiian practices, to the Corrections Population Management Commission.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Community Alliance on Prisons, and three individuals.

     Your Committees find that the Corrections Population Management Commission is charged with making recommendations to the Legislature and other appropriate authorities concerning a broad array of criminal justice issues.  Your Committees further find that there is an overrepresentation of Native Hawaiians in the criminal justice system.  This measure ensures that the voice of the Native Hawaiian community is heard when addressing criminal justice policies and programs.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by 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, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 218, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 218, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair