STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3639

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2393

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2393, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to the Department of Public Safety for the continued temporary housing of inmates while construction is being completed at Halawa Correctional Facility.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, the Hoomanapono Political Action Committee, and Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that, due to a delay in the completion of a capital improvement project at Halawa Correctional Facility, this appropriation is necessary to continue the temporary housing of two hundred forty-eight inmates in a non-state facility until the project is completed.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2393, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2393, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair