THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2015
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COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS |
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Senator Will Espero, Chair |
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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Tuesday, February 03, 2015 |
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TIME: |
1:15 p.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 229 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Makes an appropriation to the state department of defense emergency management agency to assemble twenty-five civilian community teams and hire a coordinator to help establish, train, and assist the teams.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO JUVENILE JUSTICE INFORMATION. Allows the dissemination of information from the juvenile justice information system to law enforcement agencies for purposes of the administration of law enforcement and law enforcement agency employment.
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PSM, JDL |
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RELATING TO SERVICE OF LEGAL PROCESS. Requires independent civil process servers to meet additional requirements in order to be placed on the director's list of qualified civil process servers. Makes permanent Act 116, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, relating to persons authorized to serve civil legal process.
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PSM, JDL |
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RELATING TO PROCESS SERVERS. Affords process servers additional protection as a protected class under the second degree assault statute when performing their duties. Shields process servers from prosecution under criminal trespass statutes when performing their duties.
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PSM, JDL |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Requires that every person newly hired as an adult corrections officer shall have, at minimum, a high school diploma.
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PSM, JDL |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and makes an appropriation to the department of public safety for the establishment and implementation of a re-entry facility for criminal offenders, which will include residential and day reporting programs.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Extends the reentry commission expiration date to December 1, 2019.
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PSM |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Appropriates funds to the department of public safety for the creation of two pilot programs designed to promote inmate visitation at state correctional facilities.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO PRISONS. Creates an independent prison oversight committee to monitor and report on the conditions of state correctional facilities, ensuring that the State's correctional facilities comply with federal and state laws and to achieve transparency and accountability in the operation of safe and humane correction facilities. Expands visitation access to correctional facilities to include prison oversight committee members. Authorizes temporary denials of visitation to visiting officials under certain conditions.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO FIREARMS POSSESSION. Requires individuals denied a firearm permit or otherwise disqualified from possessing firearms and certain defendants to provide a sworn statement that the individual has disposed of any firearms and ammunition in the individual's possession. Requires the applicable chief of police to search firearm permit and registration records for those individuals and before serving a protective order or restraining order involving firearms or ammunition, and to seize any firearms or ammunition that were not disposed of. Requires police to seize firearms and ammunition in domestic abuse cases that are in plain view of the officer or discovered by consensual search.
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PSM, JDL |
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Codifies federal law to authorize the department of the attorney general to develop and implement a state program to allow active and retired law enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm in Hawaii pursuant to the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2003. Makes conforming amendments to state firearm laws.
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PSM, JDL |
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RELATING TO SHOOTING RANGE PROTECTION. Provides protections against burdensome retroactive regulation and lawsuits; prevents frivolous claims against shooting range operators and individuals engaging in target shooting.
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PSM, JDL |
Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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_____________________________________Senator Will Espero Chair |