STAND. COM. REP. NO.  700

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1402

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1402 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to remove the limit on the number of temporary exempt positions that the correctional industries program in the Department of Public Safety may have in any one fiscal year.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety.

 

     Your Committee finds that current law limits the correctional industries program to forty-five temporary exempt positions in any fiscal year.  However, your Committee finds that additional temporary exempt positions will soon be needed to adequately staff the anticipated expansion of the correctional industries program, which provides real world work opportunities for qualified, able-bodied inmates.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2015, in order to promote continued discussion of the matter.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1402, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1402, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair