STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1171-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2548

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2548, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the administration of the State's information technology (IT) resources by:

 

     (1)  Establishing a full-time Chief Information Officer (CIO) to organize, manage, and oversee the state IT resources;

 

     (2)  Creating an IT Steering Committee (Steering Committee), including representatives of large information technology user agencies of the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative Branches to assist the Chief Information Officer;

 

     (3)  Creating Shared Services Technology Special Fund into which a percentage of the special fund assessments for government central service expenses is to be deposited and used to fund the activities of the CIO and Steering Committee; and

 

     (4)  Providing that the departmental administrative expenses which each special fund must reimburse under section 36-30, Hawaii Revised Statutes, include the implementation of IT policies developed by the CIO and Steering Committee.

 

     The Office of the Governor and Department of Budget and Finance testified in opposition to this bill.  The Department of the Attorney General and High Technology Development Corporation provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2548, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair