STAND. COM. REP. NO.  551

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1008

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1008 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE POWER OF ARREST,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make changes to the list of federal agencies whose officers can make arrests for certain offenses under state law by:

(1)  Adding the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States (U.S.) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the list;

(2)  Removing the Citizenship and Immigration Services from the list; and

(3)  Adding the proper titles of the heads of the Honolulu district offices for the FBI, ICE, and the U.S. Customs Border Protection Service.

     The Department of the Attorney General, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and Hawaii Police Department testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1008, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1008, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair