STAND. COM. REP. NO. 593

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1003

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1003, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Chief Information Officer to conduct security audits to protect the State's information and data.

 

     The Department of Accounting and General Services submitted written comments in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that protecting government databases and data communications from intrusions and theft will help to protect the public from the negative impacts of identity theft.  Authorizing the Chief Information Officer to conduct security audits will support existing state cyber security activities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on the measure; and

 

(2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1003, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1003, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair