STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1074-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2589

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and Public Safety, to which was referred S.B. No. 2589, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the effectiveness of law enforcement at Hawaii's harbors by transferring law enforcement functions and authority related to harbors law enforcement from the Department of Transportation to the Department of Public Safety.

 

     The Department of Transportation and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Public Safety commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing provisions that would have created a Harbors Division within the Department of Public Safety to allow the Department of Public Safety to better integrate the functions and authority transferred by this measure;

 

     (2)  Clarifying that the law enforcement functions transferred shall not include those related to the state harbors civil violations system;

 

     (3)  Requiring the Director of Public Safety, in conjunction with the Director of Transportation, to submit a report prior to the 2016 regular legislative session on the status of the transfer of functions and authority; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Public Safety that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2589, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2589, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Public Safety,

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair