Report Title:

Technology department

 

Description:

Requires the governor to prepare an organizational and functional plan (plan) for a department of technology. Requires the governor to submit the plan no fewer than thirty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2002.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

857

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 26-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§26-4 Structure of government. Under the supervision of the governor, all executive and administrative offices, departments, and instrumentalities of the state government and their respective functions, powers, and duties shall be allocated among and within the following principal departments that are hereby established:

(1) Department of human resources development (Section 26-5);

(2) Department of accounting and general services (Section 26-6);

(3) Department of the attorney general (Section 26-7);

(4) Department of budget and finance (Section 26-8);

(5) Department of commerce and consumer affairs (Section 26-9);

(6) Department of taxation (Section 26-10);

(7) University of Hawaii (Section 26-11);

(8) Department of education (Section 26-12);

(9) Department of health (Section 26-13);

    (10) Department of human services (Section 26-14);

    (11) Department of land and natural resources (Section 26-15);

    (12) Department of agriculture (Section 26-16);

    (13) Department of Hawaiian home lands (Section 26-17);

    (14) Department of business, economic development, and tourism (Section 26-18);

    (15) Department of transportation (Section 26-19);

    (16) Department of labor and industrial relations (Section 26-20);

    (17) Department of defense (Section 26-21);

    (18) Department of public safety (Section 26-14.6); and

(19) Department of technology (Section- )."

SECTION 2. During the interim period preceeding the regular session of 2002, the governor shall prepare an organizational and functional plan for a department of technology, whose functions and duties would include providing a central source for the State's hardware and software technology needs. The plan shall include the orderly transition to the department of technology of existing state agencies and their powers, functions, and duties that the governor deems should be transferred to the department of technology.

The governor shall be assisted by a task force which shall be appointed by the governor; provided that the task force shall consist of the following departments and agencies, including but not limited to:

(1) The special advisor for technology development;

(2) The director of business, economic development, and tourism, or the director's designee;

(3) The director of budget and finance, or the director's designee;

(3) The comptroller, or the comptroller's designee; and

(4) The University of Hawaii, or the president's designee;

(5) A board member of the high technology and development corporation;

(6) A board member of the Hawaii strategic development corporation; and

(7) A member of the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority.

The governor shall submit the organizational and functional plan to the legislature no fewer than thirty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2002.

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval and shall be repealed on July 1, 2002, in the event that the legislature fails to enact a bill establishing the powers, duties, and other provisions of the department of technology during the regular session of 2002.

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