STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.3029

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 1751

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1751, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $1 for the sex offender treatment program.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from Department of Public Safety, Hawaii Paroling Authority, and Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney.

This measure addresses a shortfall in funding for sex offender treatment for persons under parole. Often parolees are unable to pay for treatment with their own funds, and often treatment is a required condition of parole. Without the provision of treatment parole could be denied, resulting in prison overcrowding.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1751, H.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services and Judiciary,

____________________________ BRIAN KANNO, Chair		____________________________ DAVID MATSUURA, Chair