STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2208

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 3119

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3119 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KULANI CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the establishment of rehabilitative programs at Kulani Correctional Facility.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety; Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly; Community Alliance on Prisons; Hawaii Peace and Justice; Feed the Children; Dream Navigator LLC; WSRSL; United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO; and twenty-two individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that Act 117, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, authorized correctional rehabilitative programs at Kulani Correctional Facility.  This measure provides the resources necessary to implement those programs.  Your Committee further recognizes that the creation of a puuhonua, or wellness center, that reestablishes highly recognized native Hawaiian cultural practices will help restore the overall well-being of persons, families, and the native Hawaiian community.  

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3119 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair