STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1437

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 71

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 71, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to facilitate the re-integration into society of those who have been incarcerated by appropriating an unspecified amount of general revenues for the Department of Public Safety to contract with community-based nonprofit organizations to provide education, mentoring, restorative circles, farming, artisan skills, cognitive behavioral therapy, and cultural healing services to inmates and former inmates who are under the custody and control of the Department or the Hawaii Paroling Authority.

The Community Alliance on Prisons and several concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Public Safety provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 71, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair