STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1334

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1246

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1246, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Department of Public Safety to use electronic monitoring and surveillance as a standalone alternative to incarceration.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Ho‘omana Pono, LLC.

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Public Safety and Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

     Your Committee finds that authorizing the Department of Public Safety to use electronic monitoring and surveillance of individuals as an alternative to incarceration will provide an additional option to help alleviate prison overcrowding while addressing the need for public safety.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2017.

     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 H.B. No. 1246, H.D. 2, S.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, S.D. 2.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair