STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2174

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2194

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2194 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Require each county police department and all state departments and agencies having law enforcement functions to submit their respective crime statistics to the Attorney General; and

     (2)  Require the Attorney General to transmit that data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Transportation, Department of the Attorney General, The Humane Society of the United States, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Remington College Criminal Justice, and sixteen individuals.

     Your Committees find that crime statistics are an important tool used by law enforcement agencies to determine the most effective allocation of resources.  Sharing of information between law enforcement agencies at the state and county levels helps agencies to coordinate their enforcement efforts and better serve and protect the public.  Sharing of information at the national level allows agencies to coordinate and assist one another on a large scale.  Your Committees find that this measure will allow law enforcement agencies in Hawaii to more effectively stay informed and carry out their duties.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2194, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2194, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Government Operations,

________________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair