STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3068

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2009

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 2009 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to implement the recommendation of the Auditor in an October 2007 report for a legislative reassessment of the need for, or repeal of, the Correctional Program Revolving Fund.

 

     Specifically, this measure repeals section 353-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which established the Correctional Program Revolving Fund.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Public Safety.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Correctional Program Revolving Fund, established to offset the cost of inmate programs through revenues derived from fees charged to committed or detained persons participating in correctional programs, was closed in 1996 due to inactivity.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of conforming with bill drafting conventions.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2009, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2009, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair