Report Title:

Drug Courts

Description:

Amends §706-672, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to streamline the law regarding alternative programs to incarceration.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

625

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to alternative programs to incarceration.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 706-605.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (1) to read as follows:

"(1) The judiciary shall implement alternative programs that place, control, supervise, and treat selected defendants in lieu or as part of a sentence of incarceration. In the event of a sentence of incarceration, the alternative programs shall supersede the decision of the director of public safety, pursuant to section 706-672, relating to the proper program of redirection and placement of confinement of the committed person."

SECTION 2. Section 706-672, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§706-672 Place of imprisonment. When a person is sentenced to imprisonment, the court shall commit the person to the custody of the department of public safety for the term of the person's sentence and until released in accordance with law. The director of public safety shall determine the proper program of redirection and any place of confinement of the committed person[.], unless otherwise determined by the court pursuant to section 706-605.1."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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