STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2277

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3284

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 Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 3284 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a working group in the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop a plan for the phased consolidation of information technology services and staff within executive branch agencies over a five-year period, excluding the Department of Education, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and University of Hawaii.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology Services and Transform Hawai‘i Government. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation and Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that the State could benefit from consolidating information technology resources by gaining economies of scale and providing for a more efficient and secure use of technology and information management. Your Committee further finds that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs should be added as a department that is excluded from the consolidation that is the subject of this measure, due to its statutory construct and structure.

Accordingly, your Committee finds that the consolidation of technology resources under this measure will help to ensure that the State remains in compliance with growing regulatory requirements for accessibility, information storage, data sharing, and security, especially in light of recent high‑profile attacks of government computer systems by hackers. It will also promote efficiency and facilitate good governance by leveraging economies of scale.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Excluding the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from the information technology services consolidation;

(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 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. 3284, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3284, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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SHARON MORIWAKI, Chair