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Committee backs enabling bill to create Technology Innovation Fund for ITS to centralize AI and cloud services
Summary
Chairman Williams presented bill 24-43 to establish a Technology Innovation Fund, diverting a 1% fee on cloud services to an ITS-managed fund to support an AI innovation hub, cloud center of excellence and sandbox projects; the committee voted to approve and forward the bill.
Chairman Williams introduced bill 24-43 as enabling legislation to create a Technology Innovation Fund that would support an AI innovation hub and related enterprise technology work under the state’s Information Technology Services (ITS) agency. He told the committee the fund would divert a roughly 1% fee on cloud-related services that currently flows into the general fund and use those dollars to help deploy cloud services, build subject-matter expertise within ITS, and provide a central resource for agencies and…
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