STAND. COM. REP. NO. 940

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 433

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 433, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission; Office of the Public Defender; Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition; Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; Opportunity for Youth Action Hawaiʻi; and three individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Community Alliance on Prisons.

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. 433, 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