STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2960

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2016

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2016 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the counties to appoint and remove their respective police chiefs pursuant to procedures established under a county charter.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Council of Mayors.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that the grant of such authority is within the purview of the counties' executive and administrative structure and organization, and is therefore supported by and consistent with the principle of county self-governance established in Article VIII, Section 2, of the Hawaii Constitution.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its language with the language from its companion measure, S.B. No. 2177, S.D. 1.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2016, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2016, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair