STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3070

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1402

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1402, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support the Correctional Industries Program by removing the limitation of forty-five temporary exempt positions during any fiscal year and to instead permit an unlimited amount of temporary exempt positions.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Public Safety.  Testimony in opposition of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

 

     Your Committees find that providing the Correctional Industries Program with an appropriate number of temporary exempt positions will enable the Program to efficiently administer the daily workload and to effectively fulfill the purposes of the Program.  At the same time, your Committees believe that it is equally important for the Correctional Industries Program to be fiscally responsible in carrying out the purposes of the Program.

 

     Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by limiting the maximum number of temporary exempt positions for the Correctional Industries Program in any fiscal year to sixty-five employees.  This will allow gradual growth of the Program and enable the offering of increased correctional industries work opportunities and vocational rehabilitation programs for the incarcerated population.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1402, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1402, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Judiciary and Labor,

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair