Bill Text: HI SB2396 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Paroling Authority; Appropriation
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (H) Referred to PBM, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 41 [SB2396 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2396-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2025
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2396
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2396 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PAROLING AUTHORITY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to make the two part-time members of the Hawaii Paroling Authority full-time members and to give the Governor the authority to set the salaries of the paroling authority members.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and Hawaii Paroling Authority.
Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Paroling Authority plays a vital role in the State's criminal justice system. It determines minimum terms of incarceration for almost all inmates sentenced to prison, grants parole when it determines that an inmate is ready for release into the community, establishes terms and conditions of parole for each offender granted parole, oversees parole officers who monitor and supervise parolees, grants discharges from parole, and makes recommendations for pardons and commutations of sentences.
Because the Hawaii Paroling Authority is essentially a part-time body, the members find proper deliberation very difficult when reviewing cases and making decisions that are vital to public safety. Further, the Authority is experiencing severe difficulties in carrying out its responsibility in assuring that the terms and conditions of parole are properly enforced with its existing staff.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Adding two more part-time Hawaii Paroling Authority members to the current two part-time members to make a total of four part-time members, rather than making the two part-time members full-time members, and making conforming amendments; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
Your Committee intends for the Hawaii Paroling Authority to substantially increase its work capacity with the addition of two part-time members.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2396, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2396, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,
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____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair |
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