Bill Text: HI HB218 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: OHA Package; Corrections Population Management Commission

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-25 - Act 154, on 6/21/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1257). [HB218 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB218-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  660

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 218

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 218, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CORRECTIONS POPULATION MANAGEMENT COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to enhance the Corrections Population Management Commission's capacity to examine the issue of the disproportionate number of Native Hawaiians in the criminal justice system by adding two new members–-the Administrator of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and a member of the public who is knowledgeable about issues relating to the criminal justice system and has substantial experience or expertise in traditional Native Hawaiian practices.

 

     The Department of Public Safety, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Ohana Hoopakele, Community Alliance on Prisons, and a few individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     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. 218, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair