STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3125

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2755

       H.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 2755, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INCIDENT RESPONSE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Chief Information Officer to work with each executive branch department in the State to develop and maintain an incident response plan against cyber-attacks.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology Services and Department of Defense Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.

     Your Committees find that the State's executive branch department computer networks provide and control critical services to the State and its residents, including financial services, telecommunications, agricultural operations, legal affairs, transportation systems, educational and career development programs, health care systems, and public safety response.  Therefore, protection of these systems is of the utmost importance.  Your Committees further find that the incident response plans developed for the executive branch departments should work in concert as a comprehensive statewide plan.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2755, H.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Government Operations,

________________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair