STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2570

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2541

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2541 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Chief Information Officer of the State to transfer or expend general funds, subject to the approval of the Governor, for projects approved by the Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

 

     Your Committees received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Department of the Attorney General, and Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

 

     Your Committees find that no clear mechanism exists for the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to transfer general funds to another agency or department for information technology-related contracts of that agency or department.  Consequently, once a contract to implement a project has been approved, to comply with existing law, the Office of Enterprise Technology Services must either initiate the technology contract itself or add itself as a third party to the contract.  Your Committees also find that authorizing the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to transfer general funds to the agencies and departments to implement technology-related contracts will increase government efficiency and remove unnecessary obstacles to improving the State's information technology.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2541 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Ways and Means,

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair