THE SENATE

THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2022

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Chair

Senator Lynn DeCoite, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

TIME:

1:00 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229 & Videoconference

 

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Effective March 7, 2022, the Legislature will accept written, videoconference, and in-person testimony at public hearings.

 

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A G E N D A

 

HB 892, HD2

      (HSCR1006-22)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Clarifies membership and certain powers and duties of the law enforcement standards board.  Establishes new deadlines for the completion of board responsibilities.  Appropriates funds to enable the board to accomplish its mission.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (HD2)

 

PSM, WAM/JDC

HB 1239, HD2

      (HSCR1020-22)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Amends the term for members of the law enforcement officer independent review board to four years.  Makes the law enforcement officer independent review board permanent.  Amends the membership of the law enforcement standards board and the term for certain members to four years.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (HD2)

 

PSM, JDC/WAM

HB 1584

      (HSCR796-22)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE POWER OF ARREST.

Updates the list of federal agencies whose law enforcement officers may make arrests for certain offenses under state law by adding United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations and deleting United States Citizenship and Immigration Services from the list.  Updates references to the titles of the heads of the district offices for the listed federal agencies and the names of these agencies, including United States Customs and Border Protection.

 

PSM, JDC

HB 2171, HD2

      (HSCR911-22)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Establishes a department of law enforcement to consolidate and administer criminal law enforcement and investigations functions of the State effective upon approval and reestablishes the department of public safety as an independent department of corrections and rehabilitation to administer the corrections, rehabilitation, and reentry of the inmate population effective 1/1/2023.  Transfers the law enforcement functions of the department of public safety to the department of law enforcement effective 1/1/2023, and the law enforcement functions of the department of transportation, the non-statutorily mandated functions of the investigations division of the department of the attorney general, and the office of homeland security to the department of law enforcement effective 7/1/2023.  Establishes a training center.  Appropriates funds.  Effective 7/1/3000.  (HD2)

 

PSM, WAM/JDC

HB 1891, HD1

      (HSCR678-22)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF CANADIAN DOMESTIC-VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS ACT.

Enacts the Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act.  Effective 7/1/2060.  (HD1)

 

PSM, JDC

HB 1903, HD1

      (HSCR768-22)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DATA ABOUT SNORKELS AND MASKS.

Requires first responders to record in the incident report for each water rescue event the type of snorkel and mask, if any, worn by the person who was rescued or recovered.  Effective 1/1/2222.  (HD1)

 

PSM, JDC

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

All testimony received by the Hawai‘i Senate is posted on the Hawai‘i Legislature's website, which is accessible to the public. Please do not include private information that you do not want disclosed to the public.

 

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Please note the following:

 

·         The number of oral testifiers and/or time allotted to each testifier may be limited by the Chair when necessary to adhere to the committee hearing schedule. We may not be able to accommodate everyone who requests to testify orally.

·         Testifiers for this hearing will be limited to 1 minute each.

 

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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