STAND. COM. REP. NO. 979

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1012

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1012, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate an unspecified amount to the Department of the Attorney General for operating expenses for state law enforcement agencies relating to the planning and operation of security services and activities for the 2011 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting in Honolulu (APEC Meeting).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and Department of Public Safety.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is intended to provide funding for state law enforcement efforts to ensure the safety and security of the APEC Meeting.  As an initial matter, your Committee understands from testimony submitted by the Department of the Attorney General that these costs may be wholly or partially reimbursed by the federal government.

     The Department of the Attorney General submitted a request for an appropriation in the amount of $2,146,725, allocated as follows:

     (1)  Personnel costs:                      $  1,286,200

          Based on eight hours of overtime for three hundred ten officers and support staff for nine days;

     (2)  Equipment costs:                      $    660,173

          For facial recognition software, four workstations, one livescan printer, four booking laptop computers, two fingerprint printers, and ten RapID handheld devices; and

     (3)  Miscellaneous expenses:               $    199,902

          For meals, fuel, etc., including a contingency of $100,000.

     After a careful and thorough review of these items and consultation with the facial recognition software vendor, your Committee believes that this appropriation request can be reduced substantially.  For example, the Department of the Attorney General requested an unnecessarily high amount for bottled water that amounts to over ten bottles of water per shift for each state law enforcement officer.  Additionally, the request included line items for a contingency ($100,000), fuel costs (calculated at $5 per gallon), and meals for assigned officers (calculated at $21 per shift).

     Based on your Committee's review of the appropriation request, your Committee curtailed the amounts requested as follows:

     (1)  Personnel costs:                      $    640,860

          Based on four hours of overtime for three hundred ten officers and support staff for nine days;

     (2)  Equipment costs:                      $    555,725

          For facial recognition software, two workstations, one livescan printer, two booking laptop computers, one fingerprint printer, and five RapID handheld devices; and

     (3)  Miscellaneous expenses:               $     17,140

          For one meal per officer per day at $8, two bottles of water per day per officer, no fuel amount, and no contingency.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $1,213,725; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1012, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1012, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair