Bill Text: HI SB2768 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Parole; Administrative Sanctions

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-11 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB2768 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2768-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2561

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2768

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2768, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PAROLE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Hawaii Paroling Authority to use a continuum of administrative sanctions in lieu of re-incarceration when a parolee violates a term or condition of parole.

 

     Administrative sanctions under this measure include modification of the terms and conditions of parole, community service, house arrest or home detention, electronic surveillance or monitoring, substance abuse and sex offender treatment, anger management and domestic abuse counseling, and return to custody.

 

     Your Committee finds that providing a parolee with appropriate treatment may reduce recidivism and save money and lives.  In this regard, the availability of a continuum of administrative sanctions will facilitate the Hawaii Paroling Authority in working with offenders in the community, under circumstances where, among other things, the parolee's presence in the community would not compromise public safety.  Your Committee notes that as part of the continuum of administrative sanctions, if the Hawaii Paroling Authority deems it appropriate, the parolee will be returned to custody for a length of time to be determined by the Authority but not to exceed two years in the case of a technical violation.  Your Committee also notes that the administrative sanctions made available by this measure will not apply to a parolee that has a pending criminal matter, has violated a term or condition of parole for the third time, or has a prior parole revocation.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2768, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2768, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair