Bill Text: HI HB2063 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Safety; Appropriations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-16 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and M. Lee, Souki excused (2). [HB2063 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2063-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  485-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2063

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2063 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for various rehabilitation, reentry, job skill, and other support programs and services under the Department of Public Safety and the counties for incarcerated persons and their families.

 

     The State Representative of District 4, Community Alliance on Prisons, Hawaii Friends of Justice & Civic Education, and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Public Safety testified in support of the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Adding an appropriation for the No Looking Back Program by the Golden Castle Foundation to assist incarcerated men transition back into the community;

 

(2)  Deleting the amounts in each appropriation;

 

(3)  Clarifying the proper expending agency for an appropriation;

 

(4)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage continued discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2063, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2063, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair