COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Rep. Ken Ito, Chair

Rep. Romeo M. Mindo, Vice Chair

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro, Chair

Rep. Bob Nakasone, Vice Chair

HB 2823

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the maintenance of the west Hawaii veterans cemetery in the county of Hawaii.

PSM, FIN

HB 2501

Appropriates emergency funds ($2,001,986) to the Department of Public Safety for the purpose of transferring additional inmates to the Federal Detention Center or Mainland facilities.

PSM, FIN

HB 1772

Directs the executive branch to consider the undeveloped portion on the existing Halawa correctional facility as one of the possible sites for replacing the Oahu community correctional center.

PSM, FIN

HB 2507

Expands the definition of "drug paraphernalia" to include items that are distributed in reckless disregard of the risk that they will be used primarily for the use of controlled substances.

PSM, JUD

HB 2499

Creates a tracking procedure for the retail sale of lab items and regulated chemicals. Enhances penalties when the unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance occurs when a child is present, or when a child is injured in a structure where manufacturing is taking place. Updates the controlled substance list. Allows PSD by rule to temporarily revise or amend the regulated list 1 or 2 of chemicals temporarily pending a subsequent legislative session. Establishes new felonies to curtail the use of goods or chemical substances to unlawfully manufacture controlled substances.

PSM, JUD

HB 2805

Requires written findings of fact justifying waiver of the crime victim compensation fee by the court; provides that defendant's incarceration does not by itself support a finding of inability to pay the fee; specifies the ranking of the fee in the order of priority of defendant's court-ordered payments.

PSM, JUD

HB 2076

Authorizes issuance of $1.25 million in GO bonds to expand HPD's crime laboratory; appropriates $ for HPD's hiring of additional crime laboratory technicians for statewide criminal investigations.

PSM, FIN

HB 2255

Includes a person committed to the director of public safety subjected to sexual penetration as a victim of sexual assault in the 2nd degree. Adds a law enforcement officer to list of persons who can commit sexual assault in the 3rd degree by knowing sexual contact and adds person confined to a detention facility or in custody as victims.

PSM, JUD

HB 2444

Allows the Adjutant General to appoint and Assistant Adjutant General of the Army and Air component and the joint headquarters, in a federally recognized grade no higher than major general of the joint command

PSM/LAB, FIN

HB 2438

Allows the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers when they are engaged in civil defense functions protecting vital facilities, critical infrastructure, or public properties from a potential or actual terrorist threat or act; assisting in operations, or actual terrorist threat or act.

PSM, JUD

HB 2549

Establishes a Hawaii catastrophic relief fund (HCRF) to provide reinsurance for the risks of catastrophic events in Hawaii and to mitigate the impact of a catastrophic or emergency condition in Hawaii; repeals the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund (HHRF); transfers monies from HHRF to HCRF.

PSM, FIN

HB 2684

Authorizes the police to take action if there are reasonable grounds to believe that abuse of a household member is about to occur.

PSM, JUD

HB 2440

Exempts most government records or information relating to measures designed to protect the security or safety or persons or property, whether public or private, from attacks or acts of terrorism from disclosure under the Hawaii Uniform Information Practices Act.

PSM, JUD

HB 2439

Expedites the construction, installation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of civil defense warning or signal devices and sirens by exempting these items from the definition of "development" for purposes of coastal zone management.

PSM, WLH

HB 2668

Establishes a statewide fire academy to be located on the Big Island.

PSM, FIN

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