STAND. COM. REP. NO. 601

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 74

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 74 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Allow committed persons to create and place for sale approved products and crafts;

     (2)  Allocate the proceeds of theses sales to rehabilitation programs, the crime victim compensation special fund, and the committed person's account;

     (3)  Require the Department of Public Safety to study other states' practices on the making and sale of arts and crafts by inmates.

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

     Many correctional facilities across the United States have programs that allow committed persons to create and sell approved products and crafts and these programs help to reduce the rate of recidivism.  Your Committee finds that this measure will encourage committed persons to develop marketable skills that will improve their ability to successfully reenter society and the workforce.  Your Committee further finds that this measure will provide support for victim restitution by allocating a portion of sales proceeds for deposit into the crime victim compensation special fund.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the allocation of proceeds from the sale of products and crafts to unspecified percentages; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     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. 74, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 74, S.D. 1.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair