STAND. COM. REP. NO.  727

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 478, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for:

     (1)  A full-time agricultural management position and equipment for the Kulani Correctional Facility agriculture operation; and

     (2)  A full-time agricultural management position for the Waiawa Correctional Facility agriculture operation.

The Department of Public Safety, Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Community Alliance on Prisons, Hawaii Chapter of the Young Progressives Demanding Action, and a concerned individual supported this measure.  

     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. 478, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair