STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2554

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2258

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2258 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WIRELESS ENHANCED 911 BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require that quorum for the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board be met by a member's physical presence at a meeting.

This measure also deletes voting by proxy.

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and the Honolulu Police Department.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the requirement that the quorum of six members of the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board be comprised of three representatives of the wireless providers and three representatives of the public safety answering points, to clarify that any six members may constitute a quorum.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2258, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2258, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair