STAND. COM. REP. NO.  321

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 365

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 365 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO POLICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds as a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu to purchase body cameras for its police officers.

The Honolulu Police Department, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Domestic Violence Action Center, and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring the Honolulu Police Department to establish a Honolulu Police Department Body Camera Pilot Program for 100 officers; and

     (2)  Requiring the City and County of Honolulu to provide matching funds on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $50,000 for each year of fiscal biennium 2015-2017 for the grant-in-aid proposed in this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 365, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 365, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair