STAND. COM. REP. NO.  69

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2023

 

RE:   H.B. No. 68

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 68 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish a centralized statewide criminal pretrial justice data reporting and collection system pursuant to state law.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Department of Public Safety, Criminal Justice Research Institute, Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and two individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from two individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the creation of a centralized statewide criminal pretrial justice data reporting and collection system is a substantial and complex undertaking that requires interagency and interbranch collaboration, strategic planning, and resources.  This measure will provide the necessary funding to establish the system pursuant to state law.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing:

 

     (1)  The appropriation to unspecified amounts; and

 

     (2)  The effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider appropriating $1,550,000 for fiscal year 2023-2024 and $1,200,000 for fiscal year 2024-2025.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 68, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 68, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair