STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1027
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2017
RE: H.B. No. 1246
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2017
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1246, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure, as received by your Committee, is to:
(1) Address overcrowding at prisons by expanding the authority of the Department of Public Safety to release certain detainees and offenders under certain conditions and requirements; and
(2) Authorize electronic monitoring and surveillance in programs that offer alternatives to incarceration.
For the purposes of a public hearing on this measure, your Committee circulated H.B. No. 1246 H.D. 2 (Proposed Draft), a similar measure, and notified the public that it would be accepting testimony on the Proposed Draft. The Proposed Draft authorizes the electronic monitoring and surveillance of offenders in programs that offer alternatives to incarceration.
Community Alliance on Prisons and Ho‘omana Pono, LLC. supported the Proposed Draft. The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu opposed the Proposed Draft. The Department of Public Safety provided comments.
After considering the merits of both H.B. No. 1246 H.D. 1, as received by your Committee, and the Proposed Draft, your Committee amended this measure by deleting its substance and inserting the contents of the Proposed Draft.
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. 1246, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1246, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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