STAND. COM. REP. NO. 259
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2017
RE: H.B. No. 478
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2017
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 478 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The Department of Public Safety; Ho‘omana Pono, LLC.; Community Alliance on Prisons; and three concerned individuals supported this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Appropriating funds for a full-time agriculture management position for the Waiawa Correctional Facility agriculture operation;
(2) Replacing appropriation amounts with unspecified amounts; and
(3) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2099, to promote further discussion.
Should the Committee on Finance decide to deliberate further on this measure, you Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating the following amounts:
(1) $50,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2017-2018 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) agricultural management position in the Department of Public Safety to manage agricultural operations at Kulani Correctional Facility;
(2) $50,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2017-2018 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) agricultural management position in the Department of Public Safety to manage agricultural operations at Waiawa Correctional Facility; and
(3) $90,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2017-2018 for Kulani Correctional Facility agriculture operations; provided that the appropriation shall be designated as follows:
(A) $4,800 for four egg production-chicken tractors;
(B) $10,000 for one water tank;
(C) $5,000 for five greenhouses;
(D) $10,000 for one processing container;
(E) $34,000 for one Kubota tractor;
(F) $3,400 for one rotary cutter;
(G) $3,300 for one spray tank;
(H) $6,500 for a tandem disc harrow; and
(I) $13,000 for fencing materials.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 478, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 478, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,
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____________________________ GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair |
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