Bill Text: HI SB969 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Restricted Access to Correctional Facilities; Property Search

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB969 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB969-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 624

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 969

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 969, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RESTRICTED ACCESS TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to permit a conditional search of any person or vehicle entering upon the grounds of a correctional or detention facility.

 

     Under this measure, the entry of any person or vehicle onto state correctional or detention facility grounds may be conditioned upon a search for weapons or contraband, if the correctional staff gives the person notice and an opportunity to decline a conditional search prior to conducting the search.  This measure also requires correctional staff to have probable cause of contraband on a person prior to requiring a strip search of that person.

 

     Your Committee finds that it is in the best interest of public safety that any person or vehicle entering upon the grounds of a correctional or detention facility be subject to a conditional search.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 969, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 969, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair