Bill Text: HI SCR180 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund; Report

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-22 - (S) Resolution adopted in final form. [SCR180 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR180-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	180
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting an audit of the Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund.

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Legislature enacted Act 159, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, finding that statewide enhanced 911 has proven to be a lifesaving service and that routing a 911 call to the appropriate public safety answering point with a display of the caller's identification and location should be available for all users of telecommunications services, regardless of the technology used to make and transmit the 911 call; and

 

     WHEREAS, Act 159 also determined that it is in the best interest of the public to ensure that there is adequate ongoing funding to support enhanced 911 service, and beginning July 1, 2004, established a monthly wireless enhanced 911 surcharge upon each commercial mobile radio service connection, with the moneys to be deposited into the Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund, pursuant to section 138-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

 

     WHEREAS, pursuant to section 138-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, during any period in which a wireless enhanced 911 surcharge is imposed upon customers, the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board may request an audited report prepared by an independent certified public accountant; and

 

     WHEREAS, an audited report would provide information on the status of and available funding for any projects that have been undertaken or planned by public safety answering points during the audit period; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2010, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Office of the Auditor is requested to initiate the first audit of the Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the audit include a survey of the status of and available funding for any projects that have been undertaken or planned by public safety answering points during the audit period; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Auditor report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2011, on the status of the audit; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Auditor and the Chairperson of the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund; Auditor