STAND. COM. REP. NO.  588-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2347

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2347, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that exempt and civil service Department of Taxation investigators shall have and may exercise all of the powers, authority, benefits, and privileges of police officers or deputy sheriffs, including the power to arrest.

The Department of Taxation supported this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii commented on this measure.    

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2347, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair