STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2062

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2054

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2054 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish within the Civil Defense Agency the position of Statewide Communications Interoperability Coordinator and to appropriate federal funds received from the Homeland Security Grant Program to fund this new position.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from two government entities.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that this measure addresses the importance and complexity of multi-jurisdictional collaboration and partnerships among the many public safety agencies.  The intent of this measure is to achieve effective voice and data communications during routine and emergency civil defense situations.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2054, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2054, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair