Bill Text: HI SB43 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public Safety; Access to Records; Out-of-State Prisons
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-08 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. [SB43 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-SB43-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 353, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§353‑ Contracts with out-of-state detention facilities; access to records. (a) Contracts made directly between the State and a nongovernmental entity or through interstate compacts to provide for the incarceration or detention of state prisoners or detainees in a privately owned prison or out-of-state detention facility shall contain a provision that requires the contractor to provide access to the State to review all records of the contractor relating to daily prison operations and prison finances of the contractor as these records relate to Hawaii prisoners and detainees held by that prison or facility.
(b) For purposes of this section, "privately owned prison" and "out-of-state detention facility" mean any privately owned prison or out-of-state detention facility that incarcerates or detains prisoners or detainees pursuant to a contract with the State."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2011.
Report Title:
Public Safety; Access to Records; Out-of-State Prisons
Description:
Requires state contracts with privately owned prisons or out-of-state detention facilities that house Hawaii prisoners to contain a provision to ensure state access to all records of those contractors relating to daily prison operations and prison finances as they relate to Hawaii prisoners and detainees held by that prison or facility. (SD1)
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