STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1044-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2541

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Development & Business, to which was referred S.B. No. 2541 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase government efficiency by authorizing the Chief Information Officer of the State to transfer or expend general funds in addition to funds from other sources, subject to the approval of the Governor, for projects funded and authorized by the Legislature in the General Appropriations Act of 2015, for information management and technology (AGS130).

 

     The Office of Enterprise Technology Services, Department of Education, and Department of the Attorney General testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that no clear mechanism exists for the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to transfer general funds to another agency or department for expenditure on information technology-related contracts.  Consequently, once an agency or department's contract to implement a project has been approved, to comply with existing law, the Office of Enterprise Technology Services must either initiate the technology contract itself or add itself as a third party to the contract.

 

     Authorizing the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to transfer general funds to agencies and departments to implement technology-related contracts that have been authorized and funded by the Legislature in the current state budget will increase government efficiency and remove unnecessary obstacles to improving the State's information technology systems.

 

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2541 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development & Business,

 

 

 

 

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DEREK S.K. KAWAKAMI, Chair