HB 1330: RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that there is an urgent need for the replacement and relocation of the current Oahu community correctional center.  The legislature further finds that in 2020, the Honolulu city council approved a plan review use permit to move forward with the planning effort at the Halawa animal quarantine station site as the home of the new Oahu community correctional center.  The legislature notes that the department of accounting and general services has completed the inmate population projection, updated the architectural space program, and request for interest, and is now at the point of developing and issuing the request for qualification.

     Therefore, the purpose of this Act is to provide additional funding needed for the replacement and relocation of the Oahu community correctional center.

     SECTION 2.  The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary is appropriated for fiscal year 2025-2026 for the purpose of making critical capital improvements for the replacement and relocation of the Oahu community correctional center.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of accounting and general services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2028, shall lapse as of that date.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.

Report Title:

OCCC; DAGS; CIP; GO Bond; Replacement; Relocation; Appropriation

Description:

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the replacement and relocation of the Oahu Community Correctional Center.  Effective 7/1/3000.  (HD1)

The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Relating to Correctional Facilities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that there is an urgent need for the replacement and relocation of the current Oahu community correctional center.  In 2020, the Honolulu city council approved a plan review use permit to move forward with the planning effort at the Halawa animal quarantine station site as the home of the new Oahu community correctional center.  The legislature notes that the department of accounting and general services has completed the inmate population projection, updated the architectural space program, and request for interest, and is now at the point of developing and issuing the request for qualification.

     Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to provide additional funding needed for the replacement and relocation of the Oahu community correctional center.

     SECTION 2.  The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary is appropriated for fiscal year 2025-2026 for the purpose of making critical capital improvements for the replacement and relocation of the Oahu community correctional center.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of accounting and general services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2028, shall lapse as of that date.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2025.

Report Title:

OCCC; DAGS; CIP; GO Bond; Replacement; Relocation; Appropriation

Description:

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the replacement and relocation of the Oahu Community Correctional Center.

The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  773

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2025

RE:   H.B. No. 1330

      H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 1330 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds to make critical capital improvements for the replacement and relocation of the Oahu Community Correctional Center.

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Imua Alliance; ACLU Hawaii; and Reimagining Public Safety in Hawaiʻi Coalition.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Department of Accounting and General Services; and Community Alliance on Prisons.

     Your Committee finds that Oahu Community Correctional Center urgently needs to be replaced and relocated.

Your Committee further finds that the process of relocating the Oahu Community Correctional Center to Halawa has moved forward with the Department of Accounting and General Services now at the point of developing and issuing the request for qualification for the project.  Your Committee also notes that replacing the current Oahu Community Correctional Center will help the State provide much needed re-entry and re-integration services to incarcerated individuals.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider authorizing $30,000,000 in general obligation bonds for the replacement and relocation of the Oahu Community Correctional Center.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1330, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1330, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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