STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2257

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3086

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 S.B. No. 3086 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Update and provide clarification to reflect the existence of the Hawaii State Cybersecurity Program, which is administered by the Hawaii Office of Homeland Security; and

(2) Eliminate the state cybersecurity, economic, education, and infrastructure security coordinator position.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Office of Homeland Security and Office of the Adjutant General.

Your Committee finds that a comprehensive programmatic approach to strengthening state and county cybersecurity will help to address present and future threats to public and private critical infrastructure. A comprehensive programmatic approach to strengthening state and county cybersecurity will also improve the ability of the State to establish and grow programmatic mechanisms and develop state and county capabilities to identify threats and prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, or recover from cyber incidents, whether limited or of cascading impacts. Your Committee further finds that the delineation of responsibilities, previously situated in the singular coordinator position amongst planning and operations and the Hawaii State Fusion Center in the Office of Homeland Security, will allow for a more effective and holistic effort to meet the cybersecurity objectives of the State of Hawaii. This measure will benefit the public at large, the general business community, and critical infrastructure owners and operators in Hawaii by updating and providing clarification to reflect the existence of the Hawaii State Cybersecurity Program and eliminating the state cybersecurity, economic, education, and infrastructure security coordinator position.

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 S.B. No. 3086 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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