Report Title:

Mandatory Drug Treatment Program Quarterly Reporting

Description:

Requires the Judiciary to submit quarterly reports on the number of first-time, nonviolent, drug possession defendants sentenced to a drug treatment program as a condition of probation, and the number of probation revocations for failure to complete a program. Appropriates funds to the Judiciary for reporting.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

392

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO MANDATORY DRUG TREATMENT COURT QUARTERLY REPORTING.

 

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

SECTION 1. Act 161, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002, is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"SECTION 10A. The judiciary shall submit a quarterly report to the legislature before the convening of each regular session, beginning with the regular session of 2004. Each quarterly report shall include the number of defendants receiving drug treatment as a condition of probation as well as the number of defendants subject to probation revocation for failure to complete a drug program statewide."

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004, to facilitate information gathering and quarterly reporting of defendants subject to mandatory drug treatment pursuant to Act 161, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the judiciary for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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