STAND. COM. REP. NO. 868

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 451

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 451, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Amend Act 125, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to extend the time to expend appropriations for the establishment of a pilot visitation and family resource center at Waiawa Correctional Facility on Oahu;

(2) Make conforming amendments related to the establishment of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; and

(3) Appropriate additional funds to implement the pilot visitation and family resource center at Waiawa Correctional Facility.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission, Hawai‘i Youth Services Network, Hawai‘i Children's Action Network Speaks!, Community Alliance on Prisons, Blueprint for Change, and two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services and Department of Public Safety.

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. 451, 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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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair