STAND. COM. REP. NO.  641

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1067

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1067 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF YOUTH TO AN ADULT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that youth committed to the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility will not be transferred to adult correctional facilities where they could be exposed to serious adult offenders and subjected to possible physical, mental, and sexual assault by repealing the authorization of the Office of Youth Services' Executive Director, with approval of the Family Court, to transfer youth, who are at least 16 years of age, to an adult correctional facility for disciplinary or other reasons.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Department of Public Safety, Office of Youth Services, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Community Alliance on Prisons, and the National Association of Reformed Criminals testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.


     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. 1067, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1067, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair