STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2767

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3284

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3284, S.D. 1, 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 the technology services consolidation working group.

More specifically, this measure:

(1) Establishes the technology services consolidation working group to:

(A) Develop a plan for the phased consolidation of certain state executive branch information technology services and staff within five years; and

(B) Make recommendations to attract high quality information technology professionals to the State;

(2) Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to provide administrative support to the working group; and

(3) Requires the working group to submit a report to the Legislature of its findings and recommendations.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology Services and Transform Hawaii Government.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that consolidating information technology resources will allow the State to achieve economies of scale and provide the State with more efficient and secure uses of technology and information management. Your Committee believes that this measure will help to achieve the State's information technology vision of having a "transformative information and technology-enriched government that serves all the people of Hawaii and the aina."

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3284, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3284, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair