Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 333 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to technology.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that makes an appropriation to implement an interim alternate data center that will recover and restore information processing and telecommunication service in the event services are disrupted by a natural disaster or malicious activity, and a business plan for its implementation.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 333, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 333, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology, for further consideration.