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Appropriations advances IT budget and adds statewide ERP study language; committee adopts amendments to study scope
Summary
The committee recommended a due‑pass for the Information Technology Department budget (SB 20‑21), adopted amendments moving several enterprise planning study items into the IT bill, and added language to include grant‑management and compliance‑management functionality in a statewide ERP study.
Representative Bosch presented the Information Technology Department budget, describing several cross‑cutting modernization priorities: migrating from the state mainframe and PeopleSoft to a modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, moving from on‑premise data centers to cloud/off‑site storage, modernizing onboarding/offboarding through a ServiceNow upgrade, resolving mainframe exit collaboration, and removing double counting of IT expenditures across agency budgets.
Section 5 of the budget included one‑time funding for state data‑center migration and IT service modernization. Bosch described $3,512,670 in one‑time funding tied to migration work, including $1,719,000 for the data‑center transition and $1,793,000 for license and modernization work (ServiceNow onboarding/offboarding automation). The proposal also included continuing appropriations to reduce double‑counting and two new FTEs to support siren network and highway information network operations.
Representative Swantek and Representative Munson introduced identical study language—originally drafted for higher education—to direct a statewide study of enterprise resource planning (ERP) options that would examine the needs of institutions of higher education and state agencies together. The committee adopted the study language into the IT budget and then further amended subsection 3 of the study to add “grant management” and “compliance management” to the list of desired functionality. On roll call the committee adopted the amendment and later approved the IT budget as amended; votes on the study and final due‑pass were recorded as 20‑0 with 3 not voting.
Why it matters: the study language and the appropriation reflect an effort to coordinate higher‑education and state agency ERP choices and to avoid incremental, agency‑by‑agency purchases that could leave remaining agencies at a disadvantage when vendors consolidate business. The committee specifically sought to ensure the study would cover state agencies as well as higher education and to surface grant and compliance functions as required elements.
