STAND. COM. REP. NO.  344-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2347

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2347, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that all Department of Taxation investigators shall have and may exercise all of the powers, authority, benefits, and privileges of a police officer or of a deputy sheriff, including the power to arrest, at all times.

The Department of Taxation testified in support of this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii and Hawaii Government Employees Association provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2347, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2347, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair