STAND. COM. REP. NO. 997

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 894

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 894, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Enhanced 911 Board to hire its own staff to perform administrative functions.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Enhanced 911 Board, Police Department of the City and County of Honolulu, Police Department of the County of Hawaii, Police Department of the County of Maui, and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the Enhanced 911 Board was created to collect and expend funds so that the public safety answering points would be able to install and maintain equipment capable of providing enhanced 911 services.  Since its inception in 2004, the Enhanced 911 Board's authority has increased, yet the Board has had no authority to hire employees and has been forced to rely on consultants to sustain its operations.  Implementation of this measure will further assure that the Enhanced 911 Board is able to continue its mission in overseeing the State's emergency reporting needs.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 894, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 894, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor,

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair