Report Title:

Appropriation; Halfway Home Facility; Convicted Drug Offenders

Description:

Appropriates funds from the Hurricane Relief Fund for a 600-700 secure bed facility for convicted drug offenders. Requires that the facility be run by the department of public safety and provide clinical and psychiatric substance abuse treatment, education, job development, job-training, and associated services for participants who are convicted drug offenders or on probation for a drug offense.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1815

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

making an appropriation for a secure, SIX HUNDRED TO SEVEN HUNDRED bed substance abuse treatment facility to be run by the department of public safety.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the prevalence of crystal methamphetamine use, and the concomitant personal, property, and violent crime amounts to what many government officials call an "ice epidemic". Everyone is greatly affected by ice as it storms through our State, leaving a path of destruction. Hawaii is struggling to find effective solutions while rebuilding communities devastated by the drug.

The purpose of this measure is to tap into the hurricane relief fund to battle this ice storm and and to provide permanent solutions for individual users by appropriating funds for a secure six hundred to seven hundred bed transitional facility. The facility shall be designed and managed by the department of public safety and shall include clinical and psychiatric substance abuse treatment, education, job development, job-training, and associated services for participants who are convicted drug offenders or on probation for a drug offense.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the hurricane relief fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, for a department of public safety, designed and managed, secure, six hundred to seven hundred bed transitional facility. The facility shall be designed and managed by the department of public safety and shall include clinical and psychiatric substance abuse treatment, education, job development, job-training, and associated services for participants who are convicted drug offenders or on probation for a drug offense. The director of public safety may assign a percentage of bed space to post-incarcerated individuals in transition.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of public safety for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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