STAND. COM. REP. NO. 805-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1735

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1735, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OFFENDER REENTRY PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require and appropriate funds for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to expand programming and training for the Comprehensive Offender Reentry Program to reduce recidivism and increase inmate marketability and work-force-readiness.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Office of the Public Defender; Hawaii Paroling Authority; Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaiʻi; Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition; and numerous individuals.

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. 1735, 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