STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1281-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2334

      S.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2334, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for more effective leadership within the Sheriffs Division by:

     (1)  Repealing the civil service exemption for the First Deputy Sheriff and Second Deputy Sheriff; and

     (2)  Requiring the Deputy Director for Law Enforcement and the Sheriff to be graduates of a law enforcement academy, except if the existing Deputy Director or Sheriff was employed prior to the effective date of this bill.

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association and a concerned individual supported this bill.  The Department of Human Resources Development and Department of Public Safety opposed this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2334, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair