STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1333-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2516

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 2516, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify that the Chief Information Officer is to:

(1) Provide centralized computer information management and processing services;

(2) Be exempt from civil service;

(3) Report to the Comptroller; and

(4) Have the same salary as the First Deputy Comptroller.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology Services and three individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from Transform Hawaiʻi Government.

Your Committee finds that, at its inception, the Chief Information Officer was a position in the Office of the Governor with the position reporting directly to the Governor. Your Committee further finds that Act 84, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, transferred the position to the Department of Accounting and General Services, but did not amend the reporting structure. This measure corrects this inadvertent structural deficiency by directing the Chief Information Officer to report to the Comptroller.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Restoring language that specifies that the Governor, rather than the Comptroller, shall appoint the Chief Information Officer, subject to the Senate's advice and consent process;

(2) Specifying that the salary of the Chief Information Officer shall be established by the Governor, rather than be the same as the First Deputy Comptroller; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2516, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2516, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair