Bill Text: HI SB1227 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Enhanced 911 Services; Surcharge; Fund; Board

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1227 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1227-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 234

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1227

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 1227 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENHANCED 911 SERVICES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to expand and enhance the functioning of the Enhanced 911 Board to address the changing technologies and systems required to provide enhanced 911 services.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from one state department, three county departments, one entity, and one individual.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one entity.

 

     Your Committees find that the current Wireless Enhanced 911 Board does not include representation of other communications service providers.  This measure expands the representation of the Enhanced 911 Board and expands the responsibility of the Board to coordinate all enhanced 911 services.  Your Committees recognize that the efficient management of 911 emergency networks saves lives and dramatically reduces the liability of government entities and agencies in responding to emergencies.  In addition, this measure encompasses new technologies in the field of enhanced 911 services.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the definition of "9-1-1 Coordinator" and the provision for responsibilities of the coordinator, on recommendation of the Department of Accounting and General Services;

 

     (2)  Clarifying the provision specifying representation on the Enhanced 911 Board from public safety answering points on various islands, on recommendation of the Department of Accounting and General Services;

 

     (3)  Exempting from the monthly surcharge connections of the local exchange carrier providing land line enhanced 911 services, on the recommendation of Hawaiian Telcom;

 

     (4)  Deleting references to "telematics" on the recommendation of General Motors, LLC; and

 

     (5)  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, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1227, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1227, 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, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Economic Development and Technology,

 

____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair