Rules Committee advances bill to update state IT purchasing to include software
Senator Michael Padilla and the Department of Information Technology told the Senate Rules Committee that adding 'software' throughout procurement law will modernize state purchasing and better align budgeting; the committee gave the substitute a do-pass recommendation.
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Senator Michael Padilla urged the Senate Rules Committee to approve a committee substitute for Senate Bill 132 that would explicitly add the word "software" to the state's information-technology procurement statute to account for cloud services and software-as-a-service purchases.
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