STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3017

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2333

       H.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2333, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE INTEGRATED SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Specify that the statewide, integrated program for the treatment of sex offenders applies only to adult offenders;

     (2)  Require the statewide integrated adult sex offender treatment program to employ a best practices philosophy for the treatment of adult sex offenders;

     (3)  Direct the statewide integrated adult sex offender treatment program to develop and implement standards and guidelines for the assessment, evaluation, treatment, and supervision of adult sex offenders; and

     (4)  Identify the statewide integrated adult sex offender treatment program's coordinating body as the "Adult Sex Offender Management Team".

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and one individual.

     Your Committees find that it is critical to use current research to treat sex offenders because sexual assaults have grave and lasting effects on the victims.  Most sex offenders have many more victims than those that come forward, and steps need to be taken to interrupt the cycle of sexual assault.  This measure strengthens and expands the statewide integrated adult sex offender program by employing a best practices philosophy and requiring the development and implementation of standards and guidelines for the assessment, evaluation, treatment, and supervision of adult sex offenders.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2333, H.D. 2 and recommend that it pass Second Reading 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 Judiciary and Labor,

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair