STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1255-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2858

S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2858, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve the efficacy of the State's corrections program. Specifically, this measure:

(1) Requires the Department of Public Safety to establish key performance indicators that evaluate the Department's efforts to improve offender reentry and rehabilitation;

(2) Requires reports, using key performance indicators, to be provided to the Legislature; and

(3) Creates the annual corrections and program report as a consolidated report of other annual reports.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Ho‘omanapono Political Action Committee, Hawai‘i Justice Coalition, Community Alliance on Prisons, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Young Progressives Demanding Action - Hawai‘i, and several concerned individuals supported this measure. The Department of Public Safety and American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai‘i offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting the substantive provisions of House Bill No. 2452, H.D. 1, which was heard by your Committee earlier this session. Your Committee further amended this measure, and as amended, this measure ensures disaster preparedness by:

(1) Requiring the design of all State buildings constructed on or after July 1, 2018, to include a shelter room or area that is capable of protecting individuals from Category 3 hurricanes; and

(2) Requiring new construction to be consistent with standards issued in the Report of Recommended Statewide Public Hurricane Shelter Criteria, Hurricane Shelter Criteria Committee, State Civil Defense, June 24, 2014.

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 S.B. No. 2858, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2858, S.D. 2, 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