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. 2239, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board with greater discretion in making expenditures from the Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund.

The Wireless Enhanced 911 Board is charged with overseeing cost-recovery disbursements from the Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund to the public safety answering points and wireless carriers who incur expenses in providing wireless enhanced 911 services. This measure will allow the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board to determine by policy what expenses are necessary for the public safety answering points to provide wireless enhanced 911 service.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

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. 2239, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2239, S.D. 2.