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State IT department asks committee to loosen statutory deadlines, modernize statewide IT plan
Summary
North Dakota Information Technology told the Senate State and Local Government Committee it wants to replace rigid, multi‑year reporting requirements in statute with a more flexible process and a real‑time dashboard; the agency asked the committee to allow it to return with targeted amendments after the hearing.
The Senate State and Local Government Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 2048, an agency housekeeping bill that would change how North Dakota creates and maintains a statewide information technology plan.
Corey Mach, chief information officer for the North Dakota Information Technology Department, told the committee SB 2048 "was intended to modernize how we create and maintain our statewide IT plan." He said the measure would move statutory language away from fixed, point‑in‑time reporting requirements and toward a process that reflects faster development cycles.
Mach said the existing statutory language (cited in testimony as North Dakota Century Code 54‑59‑11) dates to 1999, when the agency was created, and…
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