STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1194

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1320

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Intergovernmental Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1320, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the public safety answering point of each county to retain the dispatch recordings of all emergency 9-1-1 calls for a period of not less than one year.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Police Department. Your Committees also received comments from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui.

Your Committees recognize the importance and value of preserving emergency 9-1-1 dispatch recordings. Your Committees find that requiring the retention of emergency 9-1-1 recordings for a period of at least one year will provide ample time for requests to further preserve critical 9-1-1 recordings, and for copies to be distributed to interested parties.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Intergovernmental Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1320, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Intergovernmental Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair