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Panel reviews DoIT oversight bill that would expand project accountability; vote deferred
Summary
House Bill 738 would expand the Department of Information Technology's authority to oversee implementation of state IT projects, require internal capacity checks before funding, create reporting and quarterly CIO meetings, remove immediate independent procurement authority and establish a work group; agencies largely supported amendments but asked for timeline clarity and the subcommittee deferred a vote to allow further edits.
Legislative staff and committee members reviewed House Bill 738 on March 28, a measure amended to increase executive and legislative oversight of large information-technology projects across state agencies.
"This bill started as a bill seeking to get dashboard information and seeing that our IT modernization projects over the last several years have very much overspent," an author identified in the hearing explained, saying an Office of Legislative Audit report highlighted process failures. The reworked bill clarifies DoIT's role in oversight and implementation and adds statutory guardrails staff said are needed to assign responsibility for projects that have historically exceeded budgets and…
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