STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 497
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2025
RE: H.B. No. 457
H.D. 1
Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2025
State of Hawaii
Madame:
Your Committee on Economic Development & Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 457 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Public Defender; one member of the Hawaiʻi County Council; one member of the Honolulu City Council; IATSE Local 665; UNITE HERE Local 5; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaiʻi Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Indivisible Hawaii; The Legal Clinic; League of Women Voters of Hawaii; HCANSpeaks!; Fujiwara & Rosenbaum, LLLC; Hawaii Friends of Civil Rights; COFACAN; Oahu Filipino Community Council; Filipino Chamber of Commerce; Roots Reborn; Hawaiʻi Democratic Party; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; Catholic Charities Hawaiʻi; Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi Education Caucus; A.L.O.H.A. Latinos; Hawaiʻi Workers Center; Imua Alliance; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Hawaiian Islands Republican Women and numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.
Your Committee finds that it is essential to ensure that all residents, regardless of immigration status, are provided appropriate due process and civil rights protections. This measure addresses this need by requiring state and local law enforcement agencies to notify an individual of their rights when in the agency's custody before any interview with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on matters regarding immigration violations.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring accommodations to be made for law enforcement agencies to provide written consent forms to individuals who speak languages for which the Office of Language Access cannot provide translations;
(2) Adding a provision to exclude the public disclosure of demographic information that is reasonably likely to identify an individual to whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been provided access; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development & Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 457, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 457, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development & Technology,
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____________________________ GREGGOR ILAGAN, Chair |
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