STAND. COM. REP. NO.  912

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.C.R. No. 10

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 10 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO REVIEW AND REPORT ON STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES' LEAVE POLICIES AND CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS' LEAVE USAGE RATES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to address periodic staffing shortages at State correctional facilities and ensure that daily staffing levels are adequate and consistent by requesting the Auditor to review and report on all State correctional facilities' leave policies and correctional officers' leave usage rates.

A Councilmember of the Maui County Council; Community Alliance on Prisons; Hoomana Pono, LLC; and two concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Public Safety offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by updating the figures for annual overtime costs incurred at State correctional facilities.  Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 10, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 10, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair