Bill Text: HI HB2266 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Prison Rape

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-07 - (S) Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 194, 7/6/2010, (Gov. Msg. No. 686). [HB2266 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2266-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3003

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2266

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2266, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Public Safety to address sexual assault in prisons.

 

     More specifically, this measure requires the Department of Public Safety to:

 

     (1)  Place priority upon establishing appropriate counseling services for inmates who are victims of sexual assault;

 

     (2)  Place priority upon establishing policies and standards of transparency to achieve a zero-tolerance policy for prison sexual assault;

 

     (3)  Annually report to the Legislature certain data regarding sexual assault, non-criminal sexual misconduct, criminal cases, and civil claims; and

 

     (4)  Report to the 2011 regular session of the Legislature on the Department's efforts to implement the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 in state correctional facilities.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will assist the Department of Public Safety in the elimination of prison rape and will protect the fundamental rights of inmates to justice, dignity, and safety.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii.  Written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2266, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair