STAND. COM. REP. NO. 546

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1320

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1320 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY 911,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the police chief of each county to retain the dispatch tape recordings of all emergency 911 calls for a period of at least three years.

The Honolulu Police Department supported this bill with amendments. A concerned individual provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Replacing the reference to the chief of police or an authorized subordinate to each county's public safety answering point;

(2) Removing references to tapes;

(3) Requiring recordings to be preserved for one year instead of three;

(4) Changing 911 references to 9-1-1;

(5) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to promote further discussion; and

(6) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1320, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1320, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair