Bill Text: HI SB2620 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund; Independent Audit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-10 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2620 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2620-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2150

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2620

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2620 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require an independent audit of the wireless enhanced 911 fund annually, including information on the status of projects undertaken or planned by public safety answering points; and

 

     (2)  Specify that the results of the audit shall be included in the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board's annual report to the Legislature.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Information Technology, City and County of Honolulu.  Testimony in opposition was submitted by the Department of Accounting and General Services.

 

     Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees finds that this measure will provide timely and accurate information annually to the Legislature on the status of the wireless enhanced 911 fund, projects undertaken, and the availability of funding for these projects.  Your Committees have heard the concerns of the Comptroller regarding additional costs and the increased time for completion that the expanded audit will require.

 

     Your Committees believe that the additional information regarding the projects is public information that should be readily available, but understand the concerns of the Comptroller.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure to require that information on the status of projects undertaken or planned by public safety answering points be included in the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board's report to the Legislature, rather than as part of the audit.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Public Safety and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2620, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2620, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Public Safety and Military Affairs,

 

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair		____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair