Bill Text: HI SR165 | 2021 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau, In Consultation With The Department Of Budget And Finance And Office Of Enterprise Technology Services, To Identify Steps That Would Be Required To Develop An Automated System To Track Studies, Funds Appropriated For Studies, And Submission Status Of Reports To The Legislature.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-23 - Report adopted, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SR165 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-SR165-Amended.html
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SENATE RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FINANCE AND OFFICE OF ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, TO IDENTIFY STEPS THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO DEVELOP AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM TO TRACK STUDIES, FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR STUDIES, AND SUBMISSION STATUS OF REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE.
WHEREAS, between 2015 and 2020, the Legislature appropriated funds and required reports in one hundred Acts; and
WHEREAS, of those one hundred required reports, thirteen reports were not submitted; of those thirteen, ten reports were funded and not delivered; and
WHEREAS, Act 71, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015, appropriated $30,000 for fiscal year 2015-2016 and $15,000 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to be expended by the Department of Health to report to the Legislature on the status of the civil monetary penalty special fund, which report has not been submitted to the Legislature; and
WHEREAS, Act 194, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, appropriated $2,000,000 out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii for fiscal year 2016-2017 for positions and other operating expenditures of the Roads Commission and for repair work, including flood mitigation, installation of drainage infrastructure, and road resurfacing; however, the Roads Commission was never established, the appropriation lapsed, and no report was submitted; and
WHEREAS, Act 231, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, required the Legislative Reference Bureau to develop a system to track and monitor the submission of reports to the Legislature by executive agencies and the Judiciary, and specified that the system encompass all annual and other reports required by law to be submitted to the Legislature or requested by legislative resolution; and
WHEREAS, in 2018, the Legislature began accepting reports filed electronically, yet the Legislative Reference Bureau still cannot identify the status of pending reports, largely due to its manual filing system which is geared towards receiving and filing reports rather than tracking report status; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Budget and Finance also cannot ascertain the status of funded studies; and
WHEREAS, the Office of Enterprise Technology Services developed a Capital Improvement Project Dashboard tracking system that tracks the amount of CIP funds encumbered and expended by department and by month, and allows citizens to see how the funds raised by bond issues are being spent, by whom, and when; now, therefore,
BE IT
RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii,
Regular Session of 2021, that the
Legislative Reference Bureau, in consultation with the Department of Budget and
Finance and Office of Enterprise Technology Services, is requested to:
(1) Identify steps that
would be required to develop an automated system to track studies, funds appropriated
for studies, and submission status of reports to the Legislature; and
(2) Obtain an estimate of costs for developing and maintaining the automated
system; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislative Reference Bureau is requested to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2022; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau, Director of Budget and Finance, and Chief Information Officer.
Legislative Reference Bureau; Department of Budget and Finance; Office of Enterprise Technology Services; Study; Report
