STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2636

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3042

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 S.B. No. 3042 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA SHARING GROUPS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Amend the Criminal Justice Data Sharing Working Group to combine its members and functions with certain members and functions of the Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission to increase efficiency and effectiveness and eliminate redundancy; and

(2) Repeal chapter 134C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which established the Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission.

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 Red Letter Industries, Hawaii Firearms Coalition, and fifty-two individuals.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from two individuals.

Your Committee finds that there are several working groups and commissions that focus on gun violence, violent crime, and criminal data sharing, including the Governor's Commission on Crime, Criminal Justice Data Sharing Working Group, and Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission. Your Committee notes that each of these groups' purposes have some overlap with one another, and the membership of these working groups and commissions all include the county prosecutors, county police chiefs, and the Attorney General. Particularly similar are the Gun Violence and Violent Crime Commission and Criminal Justice Data Sharing Working Group, which are duplicative in function and mission. Your Committee further finds this redundancy can be resolved by merging the Commission and Working Group to consolidate their efforts and streamline the vital research these groups conduct.

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 S.B. No. 3042 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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