STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1012-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2061

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2061, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRIVATE DETECTIVES AND GUARDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to help protect the public by prohibiting private detectives and guards, except for private security guards commissioned by the Director of Transportation to provide security at airports and harbors, from:

(1) Identifying themselves as law enforcement officers, police, or police officers; or

(2) Wearing or using any badge, uniform, equipment, vehicle, or other accoutrement capable of being associated with those of a law enforcement officer or that includes the words "police" or "law enforcement".

Ho‘omana Pono, LLC, and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO testified in support of this measure. The Department of Transportation and Retail Merchants of Hawaii testified in opposition to this measure. The Board of Private Detectives and Guards provided comments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2061, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair