STAND. COM. REP. NO. 286

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 560

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 560 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the State Auditor to audit the use of state and federal family leave benefits by adult corrections officers of the Department of Public Safety and submit a report of findings and recommendations to the Legislature.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Community Alliance on Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union, and four individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that cancellation of scheduled family visitation at the State's correctional facilities has been a persistent problem.  An audit will address the ongoing problem of cancelled visitation and determine ways in which the Legislature and the Department of Public Safety can address the issue.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 560 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair