STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2136-26

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2026

RE: S.B. No. 2057

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2026

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2057, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit law enforcement officers from:

(1) Using any personnel or funds originating in the State to assist or facilitate conduct by federal immigration agents that is for the purposes of civil immigration enforcement or exceeds their law enforcement duty or authority; and

(2) Assisting or cooperating with or allowing resources to be used to facilitate federal immigration agents engaged in operations with the purpose of civil immigration enforcement or that target individuals or entities engaged in certain activities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; State Health Planning and Development Agency; one member of the Hawaiʻi County Council; Community Alliance on Prisons; UNITE HERE Local 5; Kona Indivisible; Imua Alliance; Mercado de la Raza; The Legal Clinic; American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaiʻi; Roots Reborn; Hawaiʻi Coalition for Immigrant Rights; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the State of Hawaiʻi Organization of Police Officers and Hawaiʻi Police Department.

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 S.B. No. 2057, S.D. 2, 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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CHRIS TODD, Chair