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State budget staff urge folding technology‑replacement requests into standard budget to cut 700 agency exceptions
Summary
State budget and ETS officials told the Joint Appropriations Committee the new TRP book consolidates agency IT replacement requests (about $8.29 million) and recommended a small statutory change to let the committee act on TRP items in chapter 17, while preserving required federal rules on direct costs and FAR reporting.
Director Kevin Hibbert told the Joint Appropriations Committee the TRP book was created after an interim discussion to give legislators a single, enterprise view of agency technology replacement requests. He said the rollup shows the TRP total is about $8,290,176 within an $11 billion overall budget request and that the book is designed so the committee "can make TRP discussions and not get distracted at each agency's budget hearing."
Hibbert emphasized that federal grant rules limit how the state can allocate technology purchases. "CFR 200 ... says that computers have to be a direct cost," he said, adding that the Federal Acquisition Regulation also imposes inventory,…
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