Bill Text: HI HCR149 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Judiciary; Nonviolent Drug Offenders; Alternative Sentencing; Feasibility Study

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-24 - (H) Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no and Belatti, Berg, Chang, Mizuno, M. Oshiro, Shimabukuro, Thielen excused. [HCR149 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HCR149-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  947-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 149

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 149 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE JUDICIARY TO REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE ON THE PROBABLE IMPACT OF SENTENCING NONVIOLENT DRUG OFFENDERS TO TREATMENT INSTEAD OF IMPRISONMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request the Judiciary to report to the Legislature on the probable impact of sentencing nonviolent drug offenders to a treatment program instead of imprisonment.

 

     Community Alliance on Prisons, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this concurrent resolution.  The Judiciary and Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 149 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair