STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2213

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2313

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2313 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure that Deputy Sheriff recruits will be able to perform essential functions of the position by:

 

     (1)  Implementing a sophisticated pre-employment psychological evaluation to screen Deputy Sheriff recruits; and

 

     (2)  Appropriating funds for the Department of Public Safety to perform the psychological testing of Deputy Sheriff recruits.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety.

 

     Your Committee finds that the State entrusts Deputy Sheriffs with tremendous authority.  The work experience can be highly stressful, physically and mentally, but the Deputy Sheriffs must be able to make appropriate decisions under difficult circumstances.  This measure will help ensure that Deputy Sheriff recruits will be able to perform essential functions of the position, securing the safety of the public and fellow officers, by providing the resources necessary for the Department of Public Safety to develop and implement pre-employment psychological screening.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2313 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair