STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2623

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2315

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2315 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO PROVIDE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation to provide substance abuse treatment services to inmates of the Halawa Correctional Facility.

     Written comments in support were submitted by the Community Alliance on Prisons, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, and two individuals.

     Your Committee finds that many inmates of the Halawa Correctional Facility have substance abuse problems and would benefit from treatment services that are not currently available.  This measure appropriates funds to be used to provide the needed treatment services.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the amount of the appropriation to an unspecified sum; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2315, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2315, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair