Bill Text: HI SB877 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: The One Call Center

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB877 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB877-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 718

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 877

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 877, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ONE CALL CENTER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect the State's underground utility infrastructure by repealing the sunset date of the One Call Center pilot program.

 

     Your Committee received five written comments on the measure.  Written comments are available for review on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the One Call Center program provides advanced warning to excavators of the location of underground utility lines before they begin excavation.  This mandatory "Call Before You Dig" program provides excavators with a single telephone number to locate and mark underground lines, including but not limited to electricity, gas, telecommunications, cable, water, and sewer facilities.  Your Committee believes that repealing the sunset date will allow the program to reduce or eliminate interruptions in the provision of underground utility service in the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to June 29, 2009, to ensure that the measure becomes effective before the One Call Center program is repealed on June 30, 2009.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 877, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 877, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair