STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2803

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2516

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2516, S.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 and intent of this measure is to facilitate the administration of the Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Specifically, the measure:

(1) Renames the position of Chief Information Officer to Deputy Comptroller for Information Technology;

(2) Provides that the Deputy Comptroller for Information Technology shall be appointed by and report to the Comptroller; and

(3) Matches the salary of the Deputy Comptroller for Information Technology to that of the First Deputy Comptroller.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Your Committee recognizes that, although the Office of Enterprise Technology Services is established within the Department of Accounting and General Services, the Chief Information Officer, who heads the Office, is appointed by and reports to the Governor, rather than the Comptroller. Your Committee also recognizes that this situation was inadvertently created when the Chief Information Officer position was transferred from the Governor's office to the Department. Your Committee finds that this measure is appropriate to correct this structural deficiency.

Your Committee has amended this measure by renaming the position of "Deputy Comptroller for Information Technology" to "Chief Information Officer and Deputy Comptroller."

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. 2516, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2516, 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