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House Energy and Digital Infrastructure previews oversight of state IT, ADS and AI duties
Summary
Committee members heard an overview of the Agency of Digital Services, the state's AI division, the Joint Information Technology Oversight Committee and a judiciary request for permanent funding of its tech fund, and discussed statutory reporting and oversight steps.
Representative Kathleen James opened the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee meeting on Jan. 23, 2025, with introductory remarks and a brief agenda that included a presentation on state information-technology oversight.
Rick Segal, Office of Legislative Counsel, told the committee that the Agency of Digital Services, or ADS, is the central executive-branch IT agency and that the committee’s jurisdiction covers energy, utilities, telecommunications, broadband, information technology and cybersecurity. Segal urged members to review the statutes that created ADS and its authorities and to consider what changes the committee might propose.
Segal noted that ADS was created in statute in 2019 to manage executive-branch information technology and said the agency is responsible for large information-technology projects. "If there's any new information technology project with a total cost of a million or greater, there…
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