STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1499

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   S.B. No. 11

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 11, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE SHERIFF,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to plan for a potential separation of the Department of Public Safety (PSD) and the Sheriff Division by establishing a task force to:

     (1)  Determine whether PSD is capable of supporting and maintaining the duties and functions of the Sheriff Division;

     (2)  Study the feasibility and essentiality of creating a new Department of the Sheriff that would assume the duties and functions of the Sheriff Division of PSD; and

     (3)  Create a plan for the establishment of a new department if the task force determines that the new department is feasible and essential.

     PSD and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Hawaii Government Employees Association offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2011; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 11, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 11, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair