STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1256-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2861

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. 2861, 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 ensure the effectiveness of the State's correctional system and evaluate the impacts of the 2007 Community Safety Act. Specifically, this measure requires the Department of Public Safety to:

(1) Establish performance indicators or measures to be incorporated in reports that evaluate the outcomes of certain programs under its jurisdiction; and

(2) Submit semi-annual reports to the Legislature of the established performance indicators, criminal offender treatment programs, and other programs established pursuant to the Community Safety Act.

Ho‘omanapono Political Action Committee, Hawai‘i Justice Coalition, Community Alliance on Prisons, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of 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 requiring the Department of Public Safety to submit an annual report, rather than semi-annual reports, to the Legislature of the established performance indicators, criminal offender treatment programs, and other programs established pursuant to the Community Safety Act.

Your Committee notes that requiring the Department of Public Safety to submit semi-annual and annual reports likely places heavy demands on its staff and resources. It is your Committee's intent to ease that administrative burden by requiring annual reporting of the established performance indicators, criminal offender treatment programs, and other programs established pursuant to the Community Safety Act, which may be consolidated into the Department's pre-existing required annual report to the Legislature.

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. 2861, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2861, 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