Bill Text: NY S07308 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the director's guidelines not contravene any provision of the state finance law and the directors report be submitted every January first beginning in twenty nineteen.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-04-18 - SIGNED CHAP.29 [S07308 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07308-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7308
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the state technology  law,  in  relation  to  the  state
          information technology innovation center
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 4 of section 103-a of the state technol-
     2  ogy law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending  the  state
     3  technology law relating to the creation of a state information technolo-
     4  gy innovation center, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1121-A
     5  and A. 1713-A, are amended to read as follows:
     6    2.  The  director  shall implement[, by regulation, procedures] guide-
     7  lines to carry out the  provisions  of  this  section  which  shall  not
     8  contravene any provision of the state finance law. Such procedures shall
     9  include, but not be limited to:
    10    (a)  establishing  the process for selecting vendors for participation
    11  in the iCenter, which shall be a public process;
    12    (b) establishing a process to  determine  which  technology  needs  or
    13  requirements shall be iCenter initiatives; and
    14    (c) establishing safeguards to ensure the iCenter does not function in
    15  a  manner  that  results  in  the  circumvention of competitive bidding,
    16  including but not limited to through single and sole source exemptions.
    17    4. Every [October] January first, beginning in two thousand [eighteen]
    18  nineteen, the director shall submit a  report  to  the  speaker  of  the
    19  assembly,  the  temporary  president  of  the  senate,  and the governor
    20  detailing iCenter initiatives undertaken in the prior year. Such  report
    21  shall  include  but  not  be  limited to: an identification of any state
    22  resources used to support the iCenter in the prior year; the number  and
    23  nature of iCenter initiatives undertaken in the prior year; the identity
    24  of vendors that participated in the iCenter in the prior year, any iCen-
    25  ter initiatives piloted in the prior year that were subsequently awarded
    26  a  procurement  contract  with any state agency[; any future initiatives
    27  being considered for inclusion in the iCenter] to the extent the  office
    28  of  information  technology services may be aware of such contracts; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02481-04-8

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     1  an evaluation of the effectiveness of the iCenter.  Such report shall be
     2  publicly posted on the office's website.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     4  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the  state  technology
     5  law  relating  to  the  creation of a state information technology inno-
     6  vation center, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1121-A and A.
     7  1713-A, takes effect; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivi-
     8  sions 2 and 4 of section 103-a of  the  state  technology  law  made  by
     9  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
    10  shall be deemed repealed therewith.
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