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Legislative committee advances four technology bills, adds reverse-repeal amendments
Summary
A legislative committee approved strike-all amendments and added "reverse repeal" language to four House technology bills — on IT procurement, cybersecurity, cloud migration and artificial intelligence — and voted to advance each as title-sufficient, due pass as amended.
A legislative committee advanced four technology-related House bills during a meeting, approving strike-all amendments and adding “reverse repeal” language intended to keep the measures alive for further drafting.
The bills are House Bill 20, which would codify existing Information Technology Services work on digital procurement; House Bill 1380, which ties limited liability to compliance with NIST and other regulatory cybersecurity standards; House Bill 1491, to create a cloud center of excellence to help agencies migrate to cloud enterprise solutions; and House Bill 1535, to establish an artificial intelligence task force.
The committee’s action matters because the measures affect how state agencies buy and secure technology, how liability is allocated for cybersecurity incidents when agencies follow recognized standards, and how agencies may shift from in-house…
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