Bill Text: HI SB1358 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Kulani Correctional Facility; Reopening
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [SB1358 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1358-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1093
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2011
RE: S.B. No. 1358
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1358, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to, among other things, require the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to formulate a plan to reopen the Kulani Correctional Facility, including a process to transfer back to the facility the inmates that were transferred out when the facility closed in 2009.
DPS, the County of Hawaii Office of the Mayor, United Public Workers, Community Alliance on Prisons, The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, The Drug Policy Action Group, the National Association of Reformed Criminals, and several concerned individuals supported this bill. The State Department of Defense offered comments.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Urging DPS to assist the State Department of Defense in identifying alternative sites for the Kulani Youth Challenge Academy, which is a successful residential program designed for at-risk/non-traditional students;
(2) With respect to former employees of the Kulani Correctional Facility who, due to the closing of the facility, were transferred to another PSD facility or terminated from employment, requesting PSD to consider transferring these employees back to the Kulani Correctional Facility or reinstating the employment of these former employees at the Kulani Correctional Facility; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of consistency, clarity, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1358, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1358, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,
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____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair |
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