Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2074 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Honolulu police department to develop a 3-1-1 non-emergency reporting system, including a plan to levy a surcharge on each 311 phone line to fund the system.

The City and County of Honolulu Police Department and Department of Customer Services, the American Heart Association, Verizon Wireless, and Hawaiian Telcom submitted testimony in support of this measure. T-Mobile USA, Inc. submitted testimony in opposition. Cingular submitted comments.

Your Committee finds that non-emergency calls to the 9-1-1 system challenge the limited resources of the City and County of Honolulu Police Department's communications division. It is estimated that sixty-five to seventy per cent of all calls to the 9-1-1 system are non-emergency calls. This measure will provide a grant-in-aid to the police department to develop a non-emergency 3-1-1 reporting system.

Upon further consideration your Committee amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the surcharge;

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2074, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2074, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.