STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3525

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2454

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. 2454, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAII CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a correctional industries former inmate employment pilot project to provide full-time employment with the Hawaii correctional industries program for up to five former inmates to assist them with career advancement and developing job skills.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Community Alliance on Prisons, and Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that providing former inmates with employment and training will help them obtain gainful long-term employment, transition back into their communities as contributing members of society, and avoid recidivism.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the Department of Public Safety specify the data to be collected and request that service providers who work directly with the former inmates enrolled in the pilot project collect and submit the data to the department; and

(2) Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for 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. 2454, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2454, 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