STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2881

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2820

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 S.B. No. 2820 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 provide funds to temporarily house inmates of Halawa Correctional Facility at another facility while capital improvements are being made at the Halawa Correctional Facility.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and Ho‘omanapono Political Action Committee.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Young Progressives Demanding Action - Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that a capital improvement project at Halawa Correctional Facility has been delayed significantly, requiring additional temporary housing for two hundred forty-eight inmates of the Facility. Your Committee further finds that this measure is recommended by the Governor for immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

Your Committee notes that the Department of Public Safety has requested an appropriation of $3,361,139 for the purposes of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation from $3,361,139 to an unspecified amount;

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

(3) 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 S.B. No. 2820, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2820, 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