STAND. COM. REP. NO.  130

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 589

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 589 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Judiciary to retain mental health services and substance abuse treatment for the Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement program, which is an intensive supervisory program for persons on probation.

The Judiciary, Community Alliance on Prisons, The Salvation Army Addiction Treatment Services and Family Treatment Services, Helping Hands Hawaii, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Ho‘omana Pono, LLC and one individual testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 589, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 589, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair