STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3031

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2436

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2436, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE INFORMATION PRIVACY AND SECURITY COUNCIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to specify that the Chief Information Officer or that officer's designee shall serve as the Chair of the Information Privacy and Security Council, rather than the Comptroller.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

     Your Committee finds that when the Information Privacy and Security Council was first established, the State did not yet have a full-time Chief Information Officer to provide the overall direction and vision for information technology.  As information security and privacy currently fall under the purview of the Chief Information Officer and are being addressed in the information technology strategic plan that is currently under development, naming the Chief Information Officer, or the Chief Information Officer's designee, as Chair of the Information Privacy and Security Council aligns the Council's responsibilities to mitigate the negative impacts of identity theft incidents on individuals with the State's strategic vision.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2436, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2436, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Technology,

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair