STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1077

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 746

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 746, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Eliminate civil service restrictions on the hiring and employment of the Hawaii Cybersecurity, Economic, Education, and Infrastructure Security Coordinator;

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

     (3)  Appropriate funds for the coordinator and secretary positions.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO.

     Your Committees find that the economic viability of Hawaii rests upon the State's ability to monitor, detect, and defend its critical infrastructure from cyber attacks.  The quantity and sophistication of cyber events, as well as the variety of attacks, will continue to evolve and grow exponentially in the years to come.  Implementation of this measure will enable the State to assess and synchronize all efforts to develop and prioritize the resources necessary to build the State's cybersecurity.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation expending agency from the Department of Defense to the Office of Homeland Security; and

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

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 746, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 746, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Economic Development and Technology,

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair