STAND. COM. REP. NO. 937

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 724

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 724, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to update the State's technology infrastructure.

More specifically, the measure:

(1) Appropriates an unspecified sum to the Department of Human Resources Development for the enhancement of its technology resources, including the establishment of an unspecified number of full-time staff positions; and

(2) Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in an unspecified amount for the foregoing purposes.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Transform Hawaii Government.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committee finds that modernizing the computers and network infrastructure of the Department of Human Resources Development will allow the Department to provide faster responses, improve digital efficiencies, reduce paper usage, and better fulfill its mission.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the provision authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds and including an unspecified appropriation out of the general fund to fund this initiative; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 724, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 724, 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