STAND. COM. REP. NO. 712-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1741

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1741, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILDREN AND FAMILY OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Human Services to continue to lead a working group to address visitation and support needs of children and families of incarcerated individuals;

(2) Require the Department of Human Services to work with the Department of Public Safety and other entities to establish a Pilot Visitation and Family Resource Center at Waiawa Correctional Facility on Oahu;

(3) Require the working group to submit a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2023; and

(4) Appropriate funds.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Youth Services Network, Community Alliance on Prisons, Hawaii Children's Action Network Speaks!, Blueprint for Change, Early Childhood Action Strategy, Women's Prison Project, and four individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Department of Human Services, Department of Budget and Finance, and Office of Information Practices.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1741, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair