Bill Text: HI HCR168 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Safety; Religious Freedom; Incarcerated Persons

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-29 - (H) Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with none voting no and Bertram, Herkes, M. Lee, Mizuno excused. [HCR168 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HCR168-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  992-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 168

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 168 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO REQUIRE IN ITS CONTRACTS THAT INCARCERATED NATIVE HAWAIIANS BE FREE TO PRACTICE THEIR NATIVE HAWAIIAN RELIGION AS WELL AS ONE OTHER FAITH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to allow Native Hawaiians to continue to practice their religion as well as one other faith if they choose while incarcerated by requesting the Department of Public Safety (PSD) to require it in its new contracts.

 

     Community Alliance on Prisons, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this concurrent resolution.  The American Civil Liberties Union supported the intent of this measure.  PSD opposed this concurrent resolution.

 

     Your Committees have amended this concurrent resolution by:

 

     (1)  Making it inclusive of all men and women who are incarcerated instead of just those of Native Hawaiian descent; and

 

     (2)  Changing the title of this concurrent resolution to read:  "REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO REQUIRE IN ITS CONTRACTS THAT INCARCERATED MEN AND WOMEN BE FREE TO PRACTICE MORE THAN ONE RELIGION."

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 168, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 168, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair