STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1530

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 365

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 365, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO POLICE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys as a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu to establish the Honolulu Police Department body camera pilot program for one hundred officers and to purchase wearable body camera technology for the pilot program.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers and IMUAlliance.

 

     Your Committee finds that using wearable body camera technology may provide law enforcement officers and civilians with added security in their actions.  Your Committee further finds that a body camera pilot program will promote transparency, accountability, and protection for law enforcement officers and the public. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 365, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 365, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair