STAND. COM. REP. NO. 967

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1187

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1187, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Public Safety.

 

     More specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Makes an emergency appropriation of $6,006,892 for the Department of Public Safety for fiscal year 2021-2022 to cover a projected shortfall for personnel services costs; and

 

     (2)  Appropriates $502,476 to the Department of Public Safety to fund positions for intake service centers.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety.

 

     Your Committee finds that the emergency appropriation made by this measure will provide the Department of Public Safety with sufficient funds to provide continuous coverage sufficient to address the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.  Your Committee further finds that the appropriation made for intake service center positions will ensure that the Department of Public Safety can meet the legislative objectives for pretrial reform initiatives established pursuant to Act 179, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Providing that the emergency appropriation of $6,006,892 shall be expended during fiscal year 2020-2021, instead of fiscal year 2021-2022;

 

     (2)  Clarifying that the appropriation for the intake service centers is to establish nine permanent full-time equivalent (9.0 FTE) positions for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023;

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (4)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1187, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1187, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair