STAND. COM. REP. NO. 244

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1001

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1001 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENHANCED 911 BOARD,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to replace the Comptroller with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) as a member of the Enhanced 911 Board.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Office of Information Management and Technology, and T-Mobile.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Enhanced 911 Board was created to oversee the implementation of Enhanced 911 service by wireless and Voice over Internet Protocol connection service providers and the public safety answering points.  The Board's duties include collecting assessments from the connection service providers and overseeing disbursements to public safety answering points to upgrade and maintain the Enhanced 911 system, which is vital to identify and locate 911 callers.  Now that the State has a full-time CIO to provide the overall direction and vision for information technology, having the CIO as a member of the Enhanced 911 Board aligns the Board's responsibilities with the State's strategic vision.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Technology and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1001 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Technology and the Arts,

 

 

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair