STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3073

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2772

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2772, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FURLOUGH AND DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys to the Judiciary to create new and expand existing community-based furlough programs and residential drug treatment, therapeutic living, and mental health programs for judicial process-involved women.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Women's Prison Project, and one individual.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Judiciary, Department of Budget and Finance, and ACLU of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that because there is a limited number of programs that allow minors to remain with their mothers while their mothers are in treatment, funding would help expand these existing programs and create new programs to accommodate more participants.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation from $200,000 to an unspecified amount; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2772, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2772, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair