STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2116

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2589

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2589 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to transfer the law enforcement functions of the Harbors Division of the Department of Transportation to the Department of Public Safety, effective July 1, 2016.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Department of Public Safety.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the Department of Public Safety, Sheriff Division, would be better suited than the Department of Transportation to perform law enforcement functions relating to harbors.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

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

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair