CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. 128
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 1393
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
C.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 1393, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Divide and transfer the Department of Public Safety's functions into two separate entities, the Department of Corrections and the Department of Law Enforcement; and
(2) Establish a management team whose members are appointed by the governor for the purpose of developing a transition plan.
Your Committee believes that it would not be prudent to implement the division of the Department of Public Safety (Department) without thoroughly studying the ramifications of the division, and without a carefully devised transition plan. Your Committee further believes that the Department's new director should be given time to take stock of the Department and determine if dividing the Department would result in operational and economic efficiencies. Therefore, your Committee amended the bill by:
(1) Deleting sections 1 to 17 and section 20;
(2) Combining sections 18 and 19 into section 1, and modifying the language to require the Director of Public Safety (Director) to conduct a study based on specific criteria, to determine whether dividing the Department into the Department of Corrections and the Department of Law Enforcement is feasible;
(3) Requiring the Director to provide further information such as justifications, cost/benefit analysis, organizational structures, and proposed budgets if the Director determines that dividing the Department is feasible;
(4) Requiring the Director to submit the report to the legislature no later than twenty days before the convening of the regular session of 2004; and
(5) Changing its effective date from July 1, 2004, to upon approval.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1393, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1393, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ KEN ITO, Co-Chair |
____________________________ COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair |
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____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Co-Chair |
____________________________ CAL KAWAMOTO, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Co-Chair |
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Co-Chair |