STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2714

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2858

S.D. 2

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. 2858, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to improve the efficacy of the State's corrections program.

Specifically, the measure:

(1) Requires the Department of Public Safety to establish key performance indicators or measures, to be incorporated in reports that evaluate the department's efforts to improve offender reentry and rehabilitation; and

(2) Combines multiple specified annual reports of the Department of Public Safety into one consolidated annual report to the Legislature.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety; the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; 808RAN; Aloha Light Team; American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii; Community Alliance on Prisons; Hawaii Justice Coalition; Ho`omanapono Political Action Committee; OCC Legislative Priorities Committee, Democratic Party of Hawaii; Young Progressives Demanding Action - Hawaii; and seven individuals.

Your Committee finds that Act 8, First Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, enacted the Community Safety Act, which established a comprehensive offender reentry system within the Department of Public Safety. Your Committee believes that this measure will help to ensure the effectiveness and make improvements to the Department's rehabilitation and reentry programs by requiring annual reports on specific program indicators. Your Committee also finds that this measure facilitates administrative efficiency by consolidating a number of the Department's reporting requirements into one annual report.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting language to clarify that Act 144, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, section 4, was codified as section 353C-2(b);

(2) Deleting references to two annual reports that are no longer required to be created under existing law;

(3) Inserting language to clarify that if any of the cited reporting requirements is repealed or terminated, the consolidated report shall continue to be produced with the remaining reporting requirements;

(4) Clarifying that the Department of Public Safety shall report on key performance indicators on a fiscal year basis;

(5) Deleting redundant language related to the posting of reports of key performance indicators on the Department of Public Safety's website;

(6) Making conforming amendments to the laws that establish the individual annual reports that are to be consolidated by this measure;

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

(8) Making technical nonsubstantive changes 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 S.B. No. 2858, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2858, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair