Report Title:

Prisons

Description:

Provides that the development and management of in-state correctional facilities be subject to the managed competition process. Eliminates requirement for legislative approval for agreements relating to out-of-state correctional facilities to house Hawaii inmates.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1499

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE MANAGEMENT OF PRISONS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 353-16.35, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§353-16.35[]] Development and management of in-state correctional facilities. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the governor, with the assistance of the director, may negotiate with any person for the development of private in-state correctional facilities or public in-state turnkey correctional facilities, to reduce prison overcrowding. Any development proposal shall address the construction of the facility separate from the operation of the facility and shall consider and include:

(1) The percentage of low, medium, and high security inmates and the number of prison beds needed to incarcerate each of the foregoing classes of inmates;

(2) The facility's impact on existing infrastructure, and an assessment of improvements and additions that will be necessary;

(3) The facility's impact on available modes of transportation, including airports, roads, and highways; and

(4) A useful life costs analysis.

For the purposes of this section, "useful life costs" means an economic evaluation that compares alternate building and operating methods and provides information on the design, construction methods, and materials to be used with respect to efficiency in building maintenance and facilities operation.

(b) Any proposal developed for the operation of the facility shall be subject to the public-private managed competition process as established by the department of accounting and general services."

SECTION 2. Section 353-16.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

["§353-16.3 Development of out-of-state Hawaii correctional facilities. Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, the governor, with the assistance of the director, may negotiate with any appropriate out-of-state jurisdiction for the development of Hawaii correctional facilities to reduce prison overcrowding; provided that any agreement negotiated pursuant to this section shall be subject to legislative approval by concurrent resolution in any regular or special session."]

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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