STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2723

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1311

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1311, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF CONVICTED DEFENDANTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize a three-year pilot project by which the Judiciary may assume supervision and control over inmates in correctional facilities that qualify for the drug court program.

Your Committee finds that the drug court program has been extremely successful in reducing the recidivism rate for drug offenders. Rehabilitation programs that prepare persons for life after completion of their sentence are critical to public health, safety, and welfare.

Your Committee amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1311, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1311, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair