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. 3217 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to the Department of Public Safety for expenditures by the Sheriff Division for personnel, vehicles, and equipment.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Judiciary and the Department of Public Safety.

Your Committee finds that this measure would augment security and law enforcement services for the State by giving the Sheriffs Division the personnel, vehicles, and equipment necessary to carry out its responsibility to protect the public.

Your Committee amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes.

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. 3217, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3217, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.