STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3398

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 957

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 957, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELAND SECURITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Establish the Hawaii State Fusion Center as a program under the Office of Homeland Security as described in chapter 128A, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

(2) Establish the position of Hawaii State Fusion Center Director.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Honolulu Board of Water Supply, Hawaiian Electric Company, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the Hawaii State Fusion Center serves as a focal point for the State for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information between the federal, state, local, and private sector partners. The Fusion Center collaborates among all levels of government to receive, analyze, and disseminate threat-related information in coordination with intelligence partners by coordinating with the sixteen critical infrastructure sectors and lifelines, including electric, water, food, gas utilities, and communications. The collaboration includes the integration of cyber-related threat information, cyber-crime prevention, and analytic capabilities to assist in identifying cyber threats and indicators to individual networks and systems. Your Committee believes that the Hawaii State Fusion Center is an important part of Hawaii's Homeland Security. This measure will protect the citizens and visitors of the State by establishing the Hawaii State Fusion Center as a program under the Office of Homeland Security and establishing the position of Hawaii State Fusion Center Director.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 957, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 957, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair