STAND. COM. REP. NO.  587

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 941

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 941 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC GUNS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure the safety of liquor control officials by authorizing county departments of liquor control investigators to possess electric guns.

     The County of Maui's Department of Liquor Control and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Hawaii Government Employees Association supported the intent of this measure.  The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii opposed this bill.  The Department of Public Safety (PSD) submitted comments.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1)  Adding PSD narcotics enforcement officers to those authorized to possess electric guns; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 941, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 941, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair