STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2428

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2287

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2287 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the duties of the Information Technology Steering Committee and the required contents of the Chief Information Officer's annual report of the Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology Services and Transform Hawaiʻi Government.

Your Committee finds that the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic elucidated the fact that technology underpins virtually every government service, and therefore it is essential for the State to develop applications that allow the public to access its services with ease. This measure will allow the Chief Information Officer to receive assistance from the Information Technology Steering Committee in developing a plan to enhance "hawaii.gov mobile", the mobile application developed by the State for the public to access the State's website.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Restoring the existing statutory duty of the Information Technology Steering Committee to assist the Chief Information Officer in developing State information technologies standards and policies; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2287, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2287, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor and Technology,

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair