STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1172

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 162

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 162 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A FINANCIAL AUDIT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXPENDITURES IN THE STATE EXECUTIVE BRANCH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request a financial audit of information technology expenditures in the state executive branch.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of Information Management and Technology.

 

     Your Committee notes that there are many electronic and technological resources available for government use and often without charge to the State.  Despite the availability and accessibility of these resources, your Committee finds that there is an ongoing and unchecked spending on information technology goods and services among state departments and agencies.  Your Committee finds that one cause of this ongoing spending is the decentralized structure of state information technology, which discourages implementation of cost-effective measures, such as consolidation of procurement efforts, leveraging economies of scale, and up-to-date transition to integrated systems.  The most appropriate first step to resolving this spending is an audit of the information technology expenditures of the executive branch departments and attached agencies, excluding the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 162 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Technology,

 

 

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair