STAND. COM. REP. NO. 204

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 1038

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1038 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to the Department of Public Safety to continue the temporary housing of two hundred forty-eight Halawa Correctional Facility inmates at a non-state facility for the remaining six months of fiscal year 2019 until the delayed Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) Job No. 12-27-5644 for Halawa Correctional Facility security electronics and hardware repairs and improvements are completed.

The Department of Public Safety supported this measure.

Your Committee notes that the original scheduled completion date of the capital improvements to the Halawa Correctional Facility under DAGS Job No. 12-27-5644 was in 2017, but the revised completion date is November 2019. Significant delays have resulted in excessive costs for the State to continue to house two hundred forty-eight Halawa Correctional Facility inmates for another six months through June 30, 2019. Your Committee also hopes that the State aggressively pursues liquidated damages from the responsible contractor and subcontractor.

Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs respectfully requests that it consider an emergency appropriation of $3,424,057 for fiscal year 2018-2019.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the emergency appropriation amount of $3,424,057 for fiscal year 2018-2019; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1038, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1038, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs,

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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair