Bill Text: HI SB210 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 210 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Public Safety; Corrections; Inmate Transfers

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB210 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB210-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1670

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2009

RE: S.B. No. 210

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 210, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help maintain the positive influence of important family connections and reentry programs on inmate rehabilitation by specifying criteria that must be considered in deciding whether to transfer inmates between correctional facilities located in Hawaii and correctional facilities located outside of Hawaii.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Drug Policy Action Group, Drug Policy Forum, Community Alliance on Prisons, and several concerned individuals supported this bill. The Department of Public Safety and Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 210, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 210, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair