STAND. COM. REP. NO. 43

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 475
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to
which was referred H.B. No. 475 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A BICYCLE PATROL FOR THE
     CAPITOL DISTRICT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Public Safety (DPS) to establish a bicycle patrol
for the Capitol District.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from DPS and
the Hawaii Bicycling League Community Affairs Committee

     DPS testified that while a Bicycle Unit could be an asset in
their mission to provide law enforcement and security services to
the government and community, its Protective Services Division
currently lacks sufficient resources to implement a full scale
unit.  Instead, of trying to provide funding for five bicycles
and related equipment and training, DPS suggested that a pilot
program be established with enough funding for two bicycles, and
related equipment and training.

     Your Committee finds that the DPS proposal has merit.
Accordingly, it has amended this bill to:

     (1)  Appropriate $4,000 for the bicycle patrol; and

     (2)  Provide funding for two, instead of five, bicycles.

 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 475, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
475, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   NESTOR R. GARCIA, Chair