STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1073

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 661
                                     H.D. 3




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
661, H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENHANCED WIRELESS EMERGENCY
     911 SERVICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to implement a cost recovery
mechanism to allow commercial mobile radio service providers to
recover costs incurred for providing wireless enhanced 911
services by, among other things:

     (1)  Creating the Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund (Fund) to
          ensure cost recovery for the deployment of wireless
          enhanced 911 service in Hawaii; and

     (2)  Establishing a Wireless Enhanced 911 Advisory Board
          (Board) within the Department of Health (DOH) with
          authority to adjust surcharges to ensure full recovery
          of enhanced 911 costs, adjust disbursements from the
          Fund, and undertake collection actions.

     The Honolulu Police Department, Kauai E911 Public Safety
Answering Point, and GTE testified in support of this measure.
DOH, the Consumer Advocate, AT&T, and VoiceStream Wireless
commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 
 
 
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     (1)  Deleting the amount of the rate of the surcharge and
          the amount of the maximum rate of the surcharge; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity
          and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
661, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 661, H.D. 3.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



                                   ______________________________
                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair