STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1826-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2782

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. 2782, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATED TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop multilingual accessibility standards and appropriate funds to establish a program manager position within the Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Hawaiʻi Friends of Civil Rights; The Legal Clinic; Hawaiʻi Children's Action Network Speaks!; Pacific Gateway Center; Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action; and seven individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology Services and Office of Language Access.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making unspecified the number of full-time equivalent permanent program manager positions for the Office of Enterprise Technology Services; 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2782, 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. 2782, 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