STAND. COM. REP. NO. 549

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 Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1038, H.D. 1, 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 for the Department of Public Safety to pay for temporary housing of two hundred forty-eight inmates at a nonstate facility for the remaining six months of fiscal year 2019 while capital improvements to the Halawa Correctional Facility are completed.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Public Safety and United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1038, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair