STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3177
Honolulu, Hawaii
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2599, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REENTRY INTAKE SERVICE CENTERS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to require each reentry intake service center for adults to:
(1) Provide pretrial assessments on adult offenders that are consented to or that are ordered by the court, instead of preparing presentence assessments; and
(2) Provide continuing supervision and control of persons ordered to be placed on pretrial supervision by the court and persons ordered by the Director of Public Safety.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety.
Your Committees find that this measure defines how pretrial assessments are initiated and provides statutory authority to the Department of Public Safety to supervise pretrial defendants released from custody by the courts. Under the existing statute, the supervision of pretrial defendants released to the community by the courts is not listed as a function of the Department. The recommended changes to the statute as contained in this measure were not specifically addressed when the pretrial functions were transferred from the Judiciary to the Department under the Hawaii Correctional Master Plan in 1973.
The intake service center has not been involved in the presentence investigation and report process for about thirty years. This measure codifies the current assignments and duties of the Department and the Judiciary.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Adding an amendment to Act 24, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, to clarify the duties and composition of the Reentry Commission, as contained in S.B. No. 2866, S.D. 1, and changing the sunset date of the commission to December 1, 2016;
(2) Changing the effective date to June 29, 2012; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2599, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2599, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor,
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CLAYTON HEE, Chair |
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WILL ESPERO, Chair |
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