STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3276

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2069

H.D. 1

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 Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 2069, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Department of Accounting and General Services to employ persons within the comptroller's office who are exempt from State laws that govern civil service and collective bargaining, that support communications, change management, and business process improvement programs as part of the State's information technology modernization efforts.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Accounting and General Services needs the capacity to expedite the hiring of highly skilled personnel for certain unique and specialized positions in order to proceed with the State's information technology modernization efforts. According to testimony received by your Committee, the types of positions required to support the execution of specialized projects to modernize the State's information technology system do not exist in the current civil service system. This measure will allow the Department to effectively respond to the new and growing needs of the agencies they support and the public it serves, while also increasing its long-term capabilities to effectively carry out its many critical state functions.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2024; 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 Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2069, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2069, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Government Operations,

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair