STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3462

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 956

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 956, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATEWIDE INTEROPERABLE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to formally establish the Statewide Interoperable Communications Executive Committee and its Coordinator for public safety communications purposes.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Defense, Office of Homeland Security, and one individual.

Your Committees find that a formal public safety communications governance body can produce a clear direction for future communications efforts to executive leadership, a framework for impacted parties to collaborate and make recommendations, and more effective and efficient use of financial and technology resources. This measure will better align public safety communications strategies at all levels of government within the State by formally establishing the Statewide Interoperable Communications Executive Committee and its Coordinator for public safety communications purposes.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Adding a definition of "interoperable communications"; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 956, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 956, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Government Operations,

________________________________ SHARON MORIWAKI, Chair

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair