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House committee advances draft bill requiring ADS project dashboards, seeks ADS input
Summary
The House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee continued work on draft 250896, which would require the Agency of Digital Services to publish searchable dashboards and an annual report on state IT projects; committee members refined reporting definitions, debated thresholds and decided to seek technical feedback from ADS before markup.
Representative Kathleen James, chair of the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee, opened Friday’s meeting to continue consideration of draft 250896, "an act relating to the Agency of Digital Services," saying the panel would hear from Legislative Counsel and the Joint Fiscal Office as it refined reporting requirements for state IT projects.
The draft would require the Agency of Digital Services (ADS) to maintain a public “at‑a‑glance” dashboard and an annual report that capture information about IT projects, including scope, status, schedules (original, current and prior estimates), and budgets. Committee members focused on definitions — what counts as a “current” project, whether canceled or abandoned projects should be reported, and whether to retain a $500,000 reporting threshold or require reporting for all projects.
Why it matters: state officials and legislators said the dashboard is intended to improve legislative oversight of large IT spending and to make…
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