THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Chair

Senator Will Espero, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 09, 2016

TIME:

2:00 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2411

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT CAMERAS.

Establishes requirements for body-worn cameras and vehicle cameras for county police departments.  Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to each county for the purchase of body-worn video cameras and law enforcement vehicle cameras; provided that no funds appropriated to a county shall be expended unless matched dollar-for-dollar by the county.

 

PSM, JDL/WAM

SB 2417

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Requires each police commission to develop basic guidelines for the use of body cameras by police officers to be adopted as written policies for each county police department.  Requires police departments using police officer worn body cameras to submit written annual reports regarding the body camera program to the police commission and requires the police commission to submit annual reports to the department of the attorney general and legislature.  Requires the police departments using police officer worn body cameras to explore and apply for any available federal funding and grant moneys to assist in covering the operational costs of employing a police officer worn body camera program.

 

PSM, JDL/WAM

SB 2452

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO URBAN AGRICULTURE.

Requires the counties to incorporate urban agriculture principles and policies in land use planning and to allow urban agriculture as a residential use in a residentially designated zone.

 

PSM, WLA

SB 2250

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO COUNTIES.

Allows the counties to make short term investments with similar authority as the state director of finance.  Requires counties' investments in bonds of any improvement district to be of investment grade or supported by the general obligation pledge of the county in which the improvement district is located.

 

PSM, WAM

SB 2123

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ZONING.

Clarifies county zoning authority by distinguishing single-family residential use from single-family vacation rental use and allowing amortization by ordinance for single-family transient vacation rentals over a reasonable period.

 

PSM, CPH

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara

Chair