CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 104-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2641

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2641, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for residential programs that allow minor children to remain with their mothers while participating in a residential program, including community-based furlough programs, residential drug treatment programs, therapeutic community programs, and mental health programs, to reduce the risk of trauma and multigenerational incarceration.

Your Committee on Conference finds that the incarceration of mothers that results in separation from their children has devastating negative developmental and emotional impacts on children that increase the risk of multigenerational incarceration. This measure will reduce the risk of multigenerational incarceration by funding programs that allow minors to remain with their mothers during the mothers' program participation.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an appropriation amount of $200,000 for residential programs that allow minor children to remain with their mothers while participating in a residential program; and

(2) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2022.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2641, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2641, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ TAKASHI OHNO Co-Chair	____________________________ KARL RHOADS Chair
____________________________ LINDA ICHIYAMA Co-Chair	____________________________ MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO Co-Chair
____________________________ BERTRAND KOBAYASHI Co-Chair