Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2073, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the power of federal officers to make arrests under state law, which is currently limited to officers of the United States Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, to all federal law enforcement officers, which includes agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the United States Secret Service; the United States Marshals Service; and the Department of Homeland Security's Citizen and Immigration Service and Customs and Border Protection.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that it is appropriate to extend the power to make arrest under state law to all federal agents and this measure will provide additional protections for citizens of the State and our many visitors.

Your Committee amended this measure to make technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2073, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2073, S.D. 2.