Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1182 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to appropriate funds for the Honolulu Police Department to act as the state control terminal agency for the national crime information center and the national law enforcement telecommunications system.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Accounting and General Services, the Prosecuting Attorney for Hawaii County, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, the Hawaii County Police Department, the Honolulu Police Department, the Kauai County Police Department and the Maui County Police Department.

Your Committee finds that the Honolulu Police Department maintains itself as the Control Terminal Agency (CTA) in this state for the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS). Your Committee further finds that various agencies in this state draw information from these two databases and therefore depend on the Honolulu Police Department to maintain its status as the CTA for this state. However, your Committee notes that this appropriation is supposed to address an ongoing annual cost to the Honolulu Police Department and the bill is crafted in a manner that requests an appropriation for only the first year of the legislative biennium. An appropriation that includes the fiscal year 2002 to 2003 should be developed by the Finance Committee and therefore the appropriation dollar amount should be left open for further discussion.

Your Committee amended the bill by replacing the dollar figure appropriation amount with one dollar.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1182, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1182, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.