Bill Text: HI SB2866 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Comprehensive Offender Reentry System; Reentry Commission

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-27 - (S) Act 076, 4/26/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1177). [SB2866 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2866-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1564-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2866

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2866, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMPREHENSIVE OFFENDER REENTRY SYSTEM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure public safety and reduce recidivism of incarcerated individuals by preparing these individuals for reentry into the community through programs and services that reflect best practices and evidence-based results and provide these individuals with greater opportunities to be rehabilitated.  Specifically, this measure, among other things:

 

     (1)  Creates the Offender Reentry Office to oversee the Comprehensive Offender Reentry System and restores the purpose of the intake service centers to screen, evaluate, and classify the admission of persons to community correctional centers; and

 

     (2)  Reconstitutes the Reentry Commission, expands its duties, and extends its repeal date.

 

     The Department of Public Safety, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and Community Alliance on Prisons testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2012; 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. 2866, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2866, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair