SB609 Summary

• Establishes a Homeland Security and Resiliency Council placed within the office of homeland security to identify electric grid and critical infrastructure needs and provide recommendations for enhancing grid and critical infrastructure resiliency throughout the State.

• Council membership includes the director of homeland security and administrator of the Hawaii state energy office (co-chairs), plus directors/administrators of planning, emergency management, transportation, public utilities commission, county emergency management agencies, county water departments, and county environmental services agencies.

• Council shall establish strategies, goals, and recommendations to enhance security and resiliency of the electric grid and other critical infrastructure sectors, and assess existing resources and identify new revenue sources needed for resiliency improvements.

• Council must submit reports to the governor, legislature, and county mayors and councils no later than twenty days prior to the 2020 regular legislative session, and every two years thereafter, while protecting sensitive security information from public release.

• Appropriates unspecified general revenue funds for fiscal years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 to the office of homeland security for the council's operations; bill takes effect July 1, 2100.