STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2347

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3048

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water and Land and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 3048 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION OFFICER AND RESOURCES ENFORCEMENT TRAINING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the establishment of a training academy for conservation and resources enforcement officers.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; Department of Transportation; Office of Mauna Kea Management; Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu; Ho‘omana Pono, LLC; and nine individuals. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from two individuals. Your Committees received comments on this measure from one individual.

Your Committees find that the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement of the Department of Land and Natural Resources lacks a centralized training venue to conduct training of officer recruits and developmental training for existing officers of the Department. As a result, a common core training curriculum is lacking and the officers have varying degrees of training depending on previous law enforcement employment. By establishing a training academy for conservation and resources enforcement officers, this measure will allow the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement to provide officer recruits with full range training in conservation and law enforcement, establish a common core training curriculum, and increase officer recruitment and retention.

Your Committees note from the testimony provided by the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement the amount of funds necessary to establish an officer training academy and the establishment of two positions to implement the training academy.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting the appropriation amount of $500,928 for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish the officer training academy;

(2) Specifying that the appropriation amount shall also be used for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent educational specialist position and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent office assistant position; and

(3) 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 Water and Land and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3048, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3048, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Labor,

________________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair