STAND. COM. REP. NO.  226

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1000

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1000 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENHANCED 911 SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to update and make more effective the Enhanced 911 services for mobile phone law by, among other things:

(1)  Establishing a single entity to administer enhanced 911 services for the State; and

(2) Expanding the membership and responsibilities and changing the name of the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board to the Enhanced 911 Board.

     The Wireless Enhanced 911 Board, Honolulu Police Department, County of Hawaii Police Department, and the County of Maui Police Department supported this measure.  The Department of Accounting and General Services and Hawaiian Telcom supported this bill with amendments.  General Motors, LLC opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Excepted from the enhanced 911 surcharge, connections of local exchange carriers providing landline enhanced 911 service that are under the jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission;

     (2)  Deleting the definition of "telematics" and its use throughout the entire bill;

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to                    encourage further discussion; and

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of consistency, clarity, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1000, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1000, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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HENRY J. C. AQUINO, Chair