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Appropriators weigh changing NDIT spending authority to a continuing appropriation to avoid double counting
Summary
Lawmakers and NDIT staff discussed converting several NDIT spending authorities to continuing appropriations to eliminate double accounting of vendor and infrastructure costs that now appear both in agency budgets and in NDIT's chargeback authority.
Members of the House Appropriations Government Operations Division spent an extended portion of the hearing examining whether the Information Technology Department’s current "spending authority" accounting model should be replaced with a continuing appropriation that would remove duplicate line‑item authority on NDIT’s long sheet.
Representative Bosch and NDIT staff framed the problem as double accounting: many agencies appropriate money for IT services and NDIT has authority to bill those agencies for vendor costs and infrastructure; the same dollars appear on two agency long‑sheet totals. NDIT officials argued the change…
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