Bill Text: HI SCR162 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Concurrent Resolution 162 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: IT

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Certified copies of resolutions sent, 06-16-15. [SCR162 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-SCR162-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	162
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

REquesting a financial audit of information technology expenditures in the staTE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

WHEREAS, the Office of Information Management and Technology is responsible for modernizing the State's patchwork of antiquated information technology systems, and for streamlining business practices across eighteen departments, one hundred eight attached agencies, and one hundred sixty-eight boards and commissions; and

WHEREAS, the State's information technology infrastructure is both dilapidated and decentralized; and

WHEREAS, as of January 2013, the State spent only 1.4 per cent of its budget on information technology while the national average was closer to three per cent; and

WHEREAS, as of January 2013, out of the State's forty-one thousand employees, only seven hundred forty-six were in information technology, and many of them were scattered across various departments and agencies; and

WHEREAS, the State's accounting system, inventory management system, tax system, and health care entitlement system all run on legacy machines whose eventual breakdown would mean the irretrievable loss of data; and

WHEREAS, the Office of Information Management and Technology enterprise architecture team is working across state departments and attached agencies to compile an accurate and up-to-date information technology investment portfolio for the executive branch; and this due diligence will provide a complete picture of technology investments in terms of both short-term operating and long-term capital expenditures, which is necessary to make strategic decisions for future projects; and

WHEREAS, the State's information technology budget is decentralized across the executive branch, limiting the opportunities for consolidation of procurement efforts, leveraging economies of scale, and transition to integrated systems; and

WHEREAS, the Auditor is authorized to examine and inspect all accounts, books, records, files, papers, and documents and all financial affairs of every department, office, agency, and political division; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Auditor is requested to conduct a financial audit of executive branch departments and attached agencies, excluding the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs, with regard to information technology expenditures; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the Auditor is requested specifically to review the information technology expenditures of executive branch departments and attached agencies with the exclusion of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs over the past four fiscal years from fiscal year 2010-2011 to fiscal year 2013-2014 for the following:

(1) A listing of all purchase orders, credit card transactions, and contract encumbrances for information technology expenditures for all means of financing;

(2) A listing of hardware, software, consultant, telecommunication, network, and infrastructure acquisitions;

(3) A listing of the amounts and purposes of expenditures;

(4) A listing of all information technology and related technical positions, such as radio and telecommunication positions in departments, and the budgeted and actual salaries for these positions;

(5) A summary of information technology expenses by department; and

(6) A listing (with estimated value/costs) of all information technology services and products received that do not appear as department expenditures, such as equipment, programming support, or telecommunications services provided by partnering federal or non-profit agencies or through means outside the State procurement process;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Auditor is requested to submit findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature not later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2016; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Auditor, the Comptroller, the Chief Information Officer, the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture, the Attorney General, the Director of Finance, Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the Adjutant General, Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, Director of Health, Director of Human Resources Development, Director of Human Services, Director of Labor and Industrial Relations, Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Director of Public Safety, Director of Taxation, and Director of Transportation.