STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2270
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2526
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2526 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SHERIFFS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the identification of a central location for a permanent headquarters for the Sheriff Division by December 31, 2014.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and one individual.
Your Committee finds that the Sheriff Division has never had a permanent or centrally located headquarters. A central, permanent headquarters for the Sheriff Division will enable the state sheriffs to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities when serving the health, safety, and welfare of all people in this State.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the effective date to December 31, 2015, to allow for the selection of a central location for a Sheriff Division headquarters through a comprehensive examination of existing available structures, staff space requirements, and operational needs; 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 Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2526, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2526, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,
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____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair |
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