STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1517

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1593

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Technology and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1593, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require and appropriate funds for the Department of Budget and Finance, in consultation with the Department of Accounting and General Services and the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, to develop and procure a uniform financial database for use by all state agencies.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Education, and Office of Enterprise Technology Services. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committees find that developing a uniform financial database for use by all state agencies would leverage existing information technology systems, consolidate data from multiple existing systems into a single system of record, and normalize disparate account coding practices used by different state agencies, thereby improving government accountability and transparency. Your Committees further find that such a system should be compatible with the software system currently being implemented by the Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Amending the requirement for the uniform financial database to instead require the Department of Education, in consultation with the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, to develop and procure a uniform financial database, with parameters, benefits, and features that are compatible to the software system being implemented by the Office of Enterprise Technology Services for use by all state agencies;

(2) Amending section 1 to reflect its amended purpose; and

(3) 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 Technology and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1593, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1593, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

________________________________ LAURA H. THIELEN, Chair

________________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair