SB921 Summary

• Appropriates funds to establish one permanent full-time Hawaiian culture attorney position within the Department of the Attorney General with expertise in Hawaiian language, Hawaiian culture, and Hawaiian shoreline public access rights.

• Modifies Law Enforcement Standards Board membership to allow designees for ex officio members and increases law enforcement officer positions from two to five (one from each county and one from the state), with four-year terms instead of three.

• Clarifies board member qualifications for public members, requiring at least two of four members to have criminal justice education or relevant legal/professional experience.

• Adds board responsibilities to consider studies on law enforcement consolidation and conduct its own study on efficiently satisfying its duties.

• Appropriates $275,000 for fiscal year 2019-2020 to the Law Enforcement Standards Board special fund for one administrator position (exempt from civil service), one clerical position, and operating costs.