STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2313

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2902

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2902 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds, subject to a matching requirement, for grants to participants of software application challenges in order for proofs of concept created during the challenges to be developed into prototypes suitable for state and county government.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Office of Enterprise Technology Services, Hawaii Technology Development Corporation, Makai Ocean Engineering, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Transform Hawaii Government, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that supporting the local technology community in Hawaii has the potential to assist the state and county governments to obtain necessary technology to more efficiently and effectively carry out their duties to the public.  The Hawaii Annual Code Challenge creates the opportunity for the State to work with the local technology community to modernize the State and develop innovative tools and applications to enhance services to the public.  Your Committee strongly believes that technology will continue to advance and create opportunities to transform government services.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure, as suggested by the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation, by:

 

     (1)  Allowing federal and county sources as matching funds; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2902, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2902, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology,

 

 

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair