STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3090

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2352

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2352, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Exempt the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Standards Board from civil service laws;

(2) Clarify membership and certain powers and duties of the Law Enforcement Standards Board; and

(3) Establish new deadlines for the completion of the Law Enforcement Standards Board's responsibilities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement and Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers and ACLU of Hawaiʻi.

Your Committee finds that section 139—2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, established a Law Enforcement Standards Board for the certification of law enforcement officers. Your Committee further finds that the Law Enforcement Standards Board has broad jurisdiction and is responsible for developing standards, establishing curriculums, and regulating certification requirements for law enforcement officers. Your Committee believes that these important and substantial duties are critical to ensuring that existing legal obligations are not compromised.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2352, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2352, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair