STAND. COM. REP. NO.  998-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2388

      H.D. 3

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2388, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to facilitate, in an expeditious and efficient manner, the development or expansion of in-state correctional facilities.  Specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Clarifies the Governor's authority to negotiate for the construction of a correctional facility to include the authority to negotiate for construction of a jail, such as that needed on Maui, and aligns environmental impact statement and assessment requirements for such a jail with generally applicable requirements;

     (2)  Requires the Governor to conduct a feasibility study that includes reconstructing the Oahu Community Correctional Center with a smaller footprint on the land that it currently occupies and redeveloping the remainder of the site;

     (3)  Specifies the design criteria for a newly built Oahu Community Correctional Center; and

     (4)  Appropriates funds for reconstruction of the Oahu Community Correctional Center and the relocation of the Maui Community Correctional Center.

The Department of Public Safety, City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, and United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, and AFL-CIO provided testimony in support of this measure.  Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice, Laakea Community LLC, Ho‘omana Pono LLC, and many individuals provided testimony in opposition.  The Department of the Attorney General, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Community Alliance on Prisons, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, and an individual provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding conforming language to identify detainees as the type of population primarily served by jails; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 H.B. No. 2388, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2388, H.D. 3.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair