STAND. COM. REP. NO. 48

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 724

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 724 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds and authorize general obligation bonds for the enhancement of technology resources for the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development, Transform Hawai‘i Government, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that Department of Human Resources Development's network infrastructure was last updated in 1994 and that the enhancement and modernization of its technology resources is necessary for the department to address staffing shortages and administer the state human resources program more effectively and efficiently.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

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. 724, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 724, 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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SHARON MORIWAKI, Chair