STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2749

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2526

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2526, S.D. 1, 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 Governor, in consultation with the Department of Public Safety, to identify a proposed location for permanent headquarters for the Department of Public Safety Sheriff Division.

     Your Committee received no written comments on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that this measure takes a necessary step towards constructing a permanent Sheriff Division headquarters that will enable the Sheriff Division to better carry out its duties to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people in the State.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Deleting the requirement that the proposed headquarters for the Sheriff Division be in a central location; and

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2526, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2526, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair