STAND. COM. REP. NO.  963-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2188

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2188, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAII CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize Hawaii Correctional Industries to sell goods and services to the general public, which will substantially improve its ability to be financially self-supporting and increase work training opportunities for inmates at no additional cost to the State.

 

     The Department of Public Safety, United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, and AFL-CIO, and Community Alliance on Prisons provided testimony in support of the measure.  

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2188, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2188, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair