Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 637, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help improve public safety by appropriating funds to the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) for the development costs of a 3-1-1 non-emergency reporting system.

HPD, American Heart Association, and Verizon Hawaii supported this bill. T-Mobile USA, Inc. opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 637, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 637, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.