STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1296

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1264

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Intrastate Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 1264, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SECURITY GUARDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help security guard agencies maintain adequate numbers of licensed security guards to meet client expectations without compromising consumer protection by addressing concerns relating to security guard registration, license renewal, instruction, and training.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Board of Private Detectives and Guards, and Securitas Security Services USA offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Board of Private Detectives and Guards to set the minimum number of hours of classroom instruction required for guards, which may be up to eight hours before the first day of service and at license renewal, respectively;

 

     (2)  Changing the license renewal requirement for security guards from a biennial to a triennial license renewal period;

 

     (3)  Requiring security guards to meet all registration, instruction, and training requirements within 30 days from the first day of employment; provided that before the first day of employment, applicants successfully complete a criminal history record check in accordance with section 846-2.7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including fingerprinting, and a criminal history record check conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or other authorized national criminal history record check;

 

(4)  Requiring the Board of Private Detectives and Guards to:

 

     (A)  Review the current laws, administrative rules, and procedures currently governing the registration of security guards;

 

     (B)  Study whether security guard agencies should be prohibited from denying their employees from taking outside supplemental employment; and

 

     (C)  Submit findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation or amendments to administrative rules and procedures, to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2018;

 

     (5)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2090, to promote further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intrastate Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1264, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1264, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Intrastate Commerce,

 

 

 

 

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TAKASHI OHNO, Chair