STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 335-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2332

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2332 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRINCIPAL PRIVATE DETECTIVES AND GUARDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to correct constitutional problems in the law regulating private detectives and guards.

Specifically, this bill:

(1) Repeals the requirement that a principal detective or principal guard must be a resident of the State for the agency to maintain its licensure;

(2) Requires the principal detective or principal guard to be fully responsible with regard to the direct management and control of the agency and its employees; and

(3) Allows an agency to employ more than one principal detective or principal guard.

The Board of Private Detectives and Guards testified in strong support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this measure will codify the policy of allowing an out-of-state principal detective or principal guard to operate an in-state agency. Your Committee also finds that this measure is necessary in view of the Department of the Attorney General's determination that the existing law is unconstitutional.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2332 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

		____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair