STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1829-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2526

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2526, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group's dissolution date and require the Working Group to assist the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in working with certain state agencies to inventory and categorize the business criticality of each major state information technology system or data set and determine the appropriate data center or hosting facility requirements.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology Services and Servpac. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Corporate Board of Directors.

Your Committee has amended this measure by excluding the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation from working with the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to inventory and categorize the business criticality of each major state information technology system or data set and determine the appropriate data center or hosting facility requirements.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2526, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2526, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair