STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1525

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1320

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1320, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY 911,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require each county public safety answering point to retain the dispatch recordings of all emergency 9-1-1 calls for a period of not less than one year.

Your Committee recognizes the importance of preserving emergency 9-1-1 recordings. Your Committee finds that requiring the retention of emergency 9-1-1 recordings for a period of at least one year will allow sufficient time for requests to further preserve critical 9-1-1 recordings and for the recordings to be reproduced and distributed as necessary.

Your Committee has amended the bill by:

(1) Placing the proposed new statutory section in Chapter 46, Hawaii Revised Statutes, instead of Chapter 52D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, because county public safety answering points may include fire departments and Chapter 52D applies only to police departments;

(2) Deleting the word "tape" from the title of the proposed section because recordings may be made digitally rather than on tape;

(3) Making it clear that recordings to be retained include those of both the incoming telephone call from the person requesting assistance and the outgoing radio communications with the agency dispatched to respond to the request; and

(4) Changing references to "9-1-1" to "911" to be consistent with the references found in sections 321-224 and 321-225 and Chapter 138, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

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 H.B. No. 1320, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1320, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

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

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair