STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2212

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2315

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2315 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO PROVIDE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Public Safety to provide substance abuse treatment services to the inmates of the Halawa Correctional Facility.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety; Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition; and Community Alliance on Prisons.

     Your Committee finds that a substantial number of inmates incarcerated at Halawa Correctional Facility have significant substance abuse problems.  However, the Halawa Correctional Facility lacks the resources to provide substance abuse treatment services to inmates who need the services.  This measure appropriates funds to increase the availability of substance abuse treatment services at Halawa Correctional Facility.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2315 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair