STAND. COM. REP. NO.  835

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 1059

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1059, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ONE CALL CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to protect underground infrastructure by making the Public Utilities Commission's (PUC) One Call Center pilot program permanent, but to exempt from the Program any pest control activity regulated under Chapter 460J, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The PUC, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, Hawaiian Telcom, and Hawaii Pest Control Association testified in support of this bill.  The One Call Center Advisory Committee offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to June 29, 2009; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     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 H.B. No. 1059, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1059, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair