Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2074, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds as a grant-in-aid to the Honolulu Police Department for the development of a 3-1-1 non-emergency reporting system.

Your Committee finds that non-emergency calls to the 9-1-1 system tax the limited resources of the 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. Development of a non-emergency 3-1-1 reporting system will alleviate this stress and allow 9-1-1 personnel to focus their resources on responding to actual emergencies.

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. 2074, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.