STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1751

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 603

      S.D. 1

      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 Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 603, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Public Safety to:

     (1)  Report to the 2018 Legislature on solitary confinement, administrative segregation, and disciplinary segregation in Hawaii and Arizona correctional facilities that house Hawaii inmates; and

     (2)  Expand the current environmental impact statement process for relocation of the Oahu Community Correctional Center to:

          (a)  Consider potential alternative sites that are 4.5 acres or larger in area; and

          (b)  Consult with the Corrections Population Management Commission and the Task Force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 85, 2016 Regular Session on the appropriate capacity and design of the relocated Oahu Community Correctional Center.

Ho‘omana Pono, LLC, Mindful Hawaii, and many individuals testified in support of the measure.  The Judiciary, Department of Public Safety, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Community Alliance on Prisons and several individuals provided comments.

     Your Committee has changed the effective date of the measure to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 603, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 603, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair