STAND. COM. REP. NO.  403-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2489

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2489 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JUVENILE JUSTICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support and enable evidence-based practices and programs that will reduce future delinquency by Hawaii's youth in cost-effective ways, including mental health and substance abuse treatment programs, by appropriating funds to the Family Court Division of the Judiciary and the Office of Youth Services, and authorizing the transfer of unexpended funds from the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility budget to Family Court Division of the Judiciary.

The Office of the Governor, Judiciary, Office of Youth Services, Office of the Public Defender, Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, Honolulu Police Department, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Hale Kipa, Community Alliance on Prisons, and several individuals testified in support of this measure.  Department of Health provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2489, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2489, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair