STAND. COM. REP. NO. 353-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2393

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 2393 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation of $3,361,139 for fiscal year 2017-2018 for the Department of Public Safety to pay for the temporary housing of two hundred forty-eight inmates at a non-state facility for an additional six months, during work on capital improvements to the Halawa Correctional Facility, under the Department of Accounting and General Services Job No. 12-27-5644 for security electronics and hardware repairs and improvements.

Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor may request immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature to address the budget shortfall.

Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $3,361,139 for fiscal year 2017-2018 for the purpose of this measure.

The Department of Public Safety, Ho‘omanapono Political Action Committee, and Ho‘omana Pono, LLC, supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the emergency appropriation amount from $3,361,139 for fiscal year 2017-2018 to an unspecified amount.

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. 2393, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2393, 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