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Committee hears companion bills to move state IT planning from point-in-time reports to rolling oversight, raise 'major' project threshold

2521309 · March 6, 2025
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Summary

The Government and Veterans Affairs Committee heard testimony on Senate Bills 2,048 and 2,049 to shift North Dakota's statewide IT planning from a biennial, date‑specific report to a continuously updated 'living' plan and to change how major IT projects are defined and overseen.

Corey Mach, chief information officer for the State of North Dakota, told the House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee that Senate Bill 2,048 would remove rigid reporting deadlines and allow the state to maintain a rolling, continuously updated information‑technology plan for agencies. “Instead of having a single plan produced every biennium, we have a rolling plan,” Mach said, adding that a dashboard now gives real‑time updates on large IT projects’ status, costs and milestones.

The bills are companions: 2,048 removes date‑specific statutory deadlines that agencies must meet for IT planning, and 2,049 would revise the definition of a “major IT project” and the executive steering‑committee (ESC) oversight model. Mach said the current…

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