STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2533

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3038

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 3038 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INFORMATION PRIVACY AND SECURITY COUNCIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend section 487N-5(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow for each member of the Information Privacy and Security Council to designate a designee to act on the member's behalf in order to ensure quorum.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Your Committee finds that the Information Privacy and Security Council is tasked with developing guidelines and best practices related to cybersecurity and information privacy. Your Committee further finds that it is in the public interest to allow members of the Information Privacy and Security Council to appoint designees to act on their behalf. This will ensure quorum and the efficient operation of the Council in situations where a member is absent or otherwise unable to attend to the member's duties. Accordingly, your Committee finds that this measure will improve government functioning by providing a method in which the work of the Information Privacy and Security Council may proceed in the event a member is unable to attend to council duties.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3038 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Government Operations,

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SHARON MORIWAKI, Chair