Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 333, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the information processing services program.

The funds will be used to implement an interim alternate data center that will recover and restore information processing and telecommunications services in the event services are disrupted by a natural disaster or malicious activity.

This measure would also require the information processing services program to prepare a business plan for implementation of the interim alternate data center.

Your Committee finds that recent natural disasters have focused attention on the need for disaster recovery planning to minimize the disruption of public services. An interim alternate data center would allow state agencies to continue to provide critical government services to the public in the event of a major disaster.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 333, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 333, S.D. 2.