STAND. COM. REP. NO.  614-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2066

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2066 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that effective state policies will be in place that preserve public and officer safety and appropriate training of state law enforcement officers to successfully address crime in Hawaii by:

 

(1)  Repealing the exemption from civil service of the first and second deputy sheriff; and

 

(2)  Requiring the deputy director for law enforcement and the sheriff to be graduates of a law enforcement academy.

 

     Numerous concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Public Safety opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2066, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2066, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair