STAND. COM. REP. NO.  835

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 746

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 746, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to strengthen the State's cybersecurity by:

(1)  Exempting the Hawaii Cybersecurity, Economic, Education,

and Infrastructure Security Coordinator position from civil service requirements under Chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

(2)  Authorizing the coordinator to hire a secretary; and

(3)  Appropriating funds for the coordinator and secretary

positions.  

The State of Hawaii Department of Defense and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-C10,  provided testimony in support of this measure.    

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 746, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair