Bill Text: HI SB43 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	43
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

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; freedom of information requirement.  (a)  Contracts made directly between the State and a nongovernmental entity or through interstate compacts that provide for the incarceration or detention of state prisoners or detainees in a privately owned prison or out-of-state detention facility shall:

     (1)  Require the State and contractor to provide access to the same information as chapter 92F requires the department of public safety to provide; and

     (2)  Include the same remedies for the failure of contractors to comply with this chapter that chapter 92F provides for the failure of government agencies to comply with chapter 92F.

     (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.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Public Safety; Freedom of Information; Out-of-State Prisons

 

Description:

Requires privately owned prisons or out-of-state detention facilities holding prisoners under a contract with the State to follow state freedom of information laws pursuant to chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

 

 

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