STAND. COM. REP. NO.  295

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1279

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 1279 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate matching funds to be expended by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for programs related to the re-integration of offenders into the general population.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Community Alliance on Prisons, and American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii supported this measure.  The Department of Public Safety supported the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

 

     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. 1279, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1279, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair