THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2022
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COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS |
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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Chair |
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Senator Lynn DeCoite, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Thursday, March 17, 2022 |
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1:00 p.m. |
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Conference Room 229 & Videoconference |
PHOTO ID AND PROOF OF 1) FULL VACCINATION OR 2) A NEGATIVE COVID-19 TEST TAKEN WITHIN
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Effective March 7, 2022, the Legislature will accept written, videoconference, and in-person testimony at public hearings.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Clarifies that the comprehensive offender reentry system provides programs and services that result in the timely release of inmates on parole when the minimum term, rather than the maximum term, has been served by the inmate. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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PSM, JDC/WAM |
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RELATING TO INCARCERATION. Appropriates moneys for the development and maintenance of diversion, reentry, and rehabilitation services and programs by non-profit organizations in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO PRISON REFORM. Establishes the women's corrections implementation commission in the judiciary to ensure implementation of the recommendations from the final report of the House Concurrent Resolution No. 85 (2016) task force, to develop and implement an evidence-based, gender-responsive plan to divert non-violent women offenders, especially those with minor children, from the criminal justice system. Requires the commission to consider model programs including residential, in-person and community-based rehabilitation programs, supportive and subsidized housing, restorative justice, and educational programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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PSM, JDC/WAM |
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RELATING TO PROBATION. Requires probation officers to conduct formal reviews of a defendant's progress halfway through the defendant's period of probation and provide information on how to file a motion for early termination of probation. Gives probation or law enforcement officers who have probable cause to believe a defendant has failed to comply with a discretionary condition of probation the discretion to issue the defendant a written notice of a court hearing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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PSM, JDC |
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RELATING TO THE COMPREHENSIVE OFFENDER REENTRY SYSTEM. Clarifies that the department of public safety's role is to work with the department of transportation and county examiners of drivers to assist inmates in procuring civil identification cards necessary to transition into the workforce, access social services, and secure housing, rather than issue civil identification cards. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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PSM, JDC |
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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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Please note the following:
· The number of oral testifiers and/or time allotted to each testifier may be limited by the Chair when necessary to adhere to the committee hearing schedule. We may not be able to accommodate everyone who requests to testify orally.
· Testifiers for this hearing will be limited to 1 minute each.
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For amended notices: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6970.
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_____________________________________ Senator Clarence K. Nishihara Chair |
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