STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1242-26

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2026

RE: S.B. No. 2057

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2026

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Economic Development & Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2057, S.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 federal immigration agent conduct for purposes of civil immigration enforcement or that 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 civil immigration enforcement operations or operations that target persons or entities engaged in certain activities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Office of the Public Defender; one member of the Hawaiʻi County Council; Indivisible Hawaii State Network; Imua Alliance; Roots Reborn; UNITE HERE Local 5; Hawaii Filipino Lawyers Association; Kona Indivisible; Matriarchy Rising; The Legal Clinic; League of Women Voters of Hawaii; American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaiʻi; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the State of Hawaiʻi Organization of Police Officers.

Your Committee finds that federal immigration agents have been deployed as quasi-military units tasked with identifying and detaining individuals for deportation. Your Committee further finds that such agents have, on many occasions, engaged in excessive use of force, racial profiling, and illegal detention. Your Committee recognizes the need to ensure that Hawaii's public safety institutions are not implicated in such practices or used to facilitate unlawful or unconstitutional conduct. This measure seeks to uphold the integrity and core purposes of Hawaii's public safety institutions by prohibiting law enforcement officers from engaging in certain conduct related to federal immigration enforcement.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development & Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2057, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2057, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development & Technology,

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GREGGOR ILAGAN, Chair