STAND. COM. REP. NO. 405-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2460

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2460 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELAND SECURITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and specify protections for information that is received or maintained by the Office of Homeland Security for use regarding the security of critical infrastructure and protected systems, analysis, warning, interdependency study, recovery, reconstitution, or other informational purposes.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement, Office of Information Practices, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that this measure strikes an appropriate balance between protecting information about sensitive critical infrastructure and ensuring continued public access to more general information maintained by various agencies about infrastructure, including information that discusses potential problems.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2460, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2460, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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LINDA ICHIYAMA, Chair