HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2022
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Rep. Takashi Ohno, Chair |
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Rep. Sonny Ganaden, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Patrick Pihana Branco |
Rep. Dee Morikawa |
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Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi |
Rep. David A. Tarnas |
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Rep. Sam Satoru Kong |
Rep. Bob McDermott |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022 |
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10:00AM |
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VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE Conference Room 430 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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A G E N D A
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RELATING TO DATA COLLECTION. Requires that the sexual orientation and gender identity of persons processed for crimes be included in the systems of identification.
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CMV, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO OFFENDER REENTRY. Appropriates funds for a program named Project Reset which will help prisoners with reentry, rehabilitation, employment, and housing post-sentence.
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CMV, HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Clarifies that the comprehensive offender reentry system provides programs and services that result in the timely release of inmates on parole when the minimum term, rather than the maximum term, has been served by the inmate.
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CMV, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE COMPREHENSIVE OFFENDER REENTRY SYSTEM. Amends section 353H-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify that the Department of Public Safety's role is to work with the Department of Transportation and county Examiners of Drivers to assist inmates in procuring civil identification necessary to transition into the workforce, access social services, and secure housing, rather that issue civil identification cards.
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CMV, JHA |
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RELATING TO INCARCERATION. Appropriates moneys for the development and maintenance of diversion and reentry services and programs by non-profit organizations in the State.
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CMV, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO OUT-OF-STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Beginning July 1, 2022, requires all new or renewed contract agreements with out-of-state correctional facilities to include provisions modifying the per-diem-per-inmate compensation rate to drop from the full contracted rate to fifty per cent of the contracted rate once the inmate has served the minimum term and requiring all out-of-state facilities to adhere to the same standards of care as in-state facilities, including standards related to segregation of inmates.
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CMV, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONFINEMENT. Establishes policies and procedures for long-term confinement, disciplinary confinement, and administrative confinement of inmates in the State's correctional facilities.
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CMV, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Establishes a Department of Law Enforcement to consolidate and administer criminal law enforcement and investigations functions of the State effective upon approval and reestablishes the Department of Public Safety as an independent Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to administer the corrections, rehabilitation, and reentry of the inmate population effective January 1, 2023. Transfers the law enforcement functions of the Department of Public Safety to the Department of Law Enforcement effective January 1, 2023, and the law enforcement functions of the Department of Transportation, the non-statutorily mandated functions of the Investigations Division of the Department of the Attorney General, and the Office of Homeland Security to the Department of Law Enforcement effective July 1, 2023. Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement and Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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CMV, JHA, FIN |
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________________________________________ Rep. Takashi Ohno Chair |
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