STAND. COM. REP. NO.  265-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2003

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2003 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Hawaii Cybersecurity, Economic, Education, and Infrastructure Security Council to recommend improvements to the State's cybersecurity and to develop methods for securing federal moneys to fund other cybersecurity improvements.

The State Adjutant General, Director of State Civil Defense, and the Office of Information Management and Technology testified in support of the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the Hawaii Cybersecurity, Economic, Education, and Infrastructure Security Council;

     (2)  Establishing the Hawaii Cybersecurity, Economic, Education, and Infrastructure Security Coordinator (Coordinator) within the Department of Defense;

     (3)  Specifying that the Coordinator shall be selected by the State Adjutant General based on recommendations of various entities that will partner with the Coordinator;

     (4)  Requiring the Coordinator to partner with representatives from certain specified entities;

     (5)  Requiring the Coordinator, through its various partnerships, to develop the requirements and methods to, among other things:

          (A)  Improve the State's cyber resiliency;

          (B)  Improve the State's critical infrastructure network and resiliency;

          (C)  Accelerate the growth of the State's cybersecurity industry;

          (D)  Define the requirements and opportunities to secure state, federal, and private funds for cybersecurity programs;

          (E)  Form partnerships to implement cyber resiliency structures and protocol to identify and share information about possible cyber-attacks; and

          (F)  Expand the State's cybersecurity and cyber resiliency understanding and workforce through education;

     (6)  Requiring the Coordinator to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2015;

     (7)  Inserting an appropriation of an unspecified amount for the Coordinator's salary and operating expenses; and

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

     Your Committee respectfully requests that your Committee on Finance consider inserting an appropriation amount of $500,000 for the Coordinator's salary and operating expenses.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2003, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2003, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair