STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1556

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 25

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 25 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS OF EACH COUNTY TO ADOPT NEW FIREWORKS DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES TO ENFORCE FIREWORKS LAWS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the county police departments to adopt new fireworks detection technologies to enforce fireworks laws.

Your Committee did not receive any testimony on this measure.

Your Committee finds that certain new technologies allow law enforcement officers to instantly detect and locate gunshots could be adapted to detect the explosion of a firework. Your Committee further finds that these technologies will better equip county police to enforce fireworks laws by informing police, almost instantaneously, where illicit fireworks are being set off. Your Committee therefore finds that this measure urges the county police departments to adopt products that can instantly detect and locate fireworks to assist in the enforcement of fireworks laws.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 25 and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair