STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2356

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2552
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2552 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO UPGRADE THE
     TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM OF THE HAWAII COUNTY POLICE
     DEPARTMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to
upgrade the County of Hawaii Police Department's
telecommunications system.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
United States Department of Interior, SHOPO, County of Hawaii
Police Department, and the Department of Water Supply.  

     Your Committee finds that this communications system is used
not only by the County's Police Department, but by approximately
20 county, state, and federal agencies that provide emergency
response services to the public on a daily basis.  Your Committee
also finds that the present communications system is antiquated
and unreliable and that a reliable means of communication between
the public and those who provide emergency services is vital.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the
specific dollar amounts.    

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is

 
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attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2552, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 2552, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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