STAND. COM. REP. NO.  330

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 746

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 746 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to strengthen the State's cybersecurity by:

 

     (1)  Exempting the Hawaii Cybersecurity, Economic, Education, and Infrastructure Security Coordinator position from civil service requirements under Chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

     (2)  Authorizing the coordinator to hire one non-civil service secretary; and

 

     (3)  Appropriating funds for the coordinator and secretary positions.

 

     The State Department of Defense testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by removing the civil service exemption from the secretary position authorized by the measure.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 746, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 746, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety,

 

 

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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair