STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2631

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2563

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2563, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MANAGEMENT OF STATE FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1)  Make the State's Chief Information Officer, rather than the Department of Budget and Finance, responsible under section 36-2.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for establishing and maintaining:

(A)  A searchable website for the posting of state awards; and

(B)  A pilot program concerning collecting data and reporting requirements for subgrants, subcontracts, and subawards;

(2)  Change the deadline for establishing the searchable website from January 1, 2009, to January 1, 2013; and

(3)  Change the dates for the duration of the pilot program from July 1, 2008, through January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2014, through July 1, 2015.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Information Management and Technology.

     Your Committee finds that this measure furthers the State's Chief Information Officer's strategic vision of leveraging technological investments to increase government transparency.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Adding a clarifying reference to section 27-43, Hawaii Revised Statutes, wherein the position of the Chief Information Officer is established; and

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

     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. 2563, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2563, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair