Bill Text: NY S01121 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a state information technology innovation center or iCenter to develop and demonstrate technology solutions with potential benefit to the state and its citizens; facilitates the piloting of potential solutions to state technology requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-11-29 - APPROVAL MEMO.25 [S01121 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1121
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. FUNKE, GOLDEN, MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Energy
          and Telecommunications
        AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation to the creation of
          a 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. The state technology law is amended by adding a new section
     2  103-a to read as follows:
     3    § 103-a. State information technology innovation center. 1. The direc-
     4  tor may operate a state  information  technology  innovation  center  or
     5  "iCenter" to develop and demonstrate technology solutions with potential
     6  benefit  to  the  state and its citizens. The iCenter may facilitate the
     7  piloting of potential solutions to  state  technology  requirements.  In
     8  operating  the  iCenter,  the director shall ensure that all state laws,
     9  rules, and policies are followed. Vendor participation  in  the  iCenter
    10  shall not be construed to:
    11    (a) create any type of preferred status for vendors; or
    12    (b)  abrogate the requirement that the director ensure that agency and
    13  statewide requirements for information technology  support  are  awarded
    14  based  on  a  competitive  process  that  follows technology procurement
    15  guidelines.
    16    2. Beginning December first,  two  thousand  seventeen,  the  director
    17  shall  report  to  the  assembly chairman of the oversight, analysis and
    18  investigation committee and the senate chairman  of  the  investigations
    19  and  government  operations committee including ranking members for each
    20  committee as well as, the speaker, the president of the senate  and  the
    21  governor  on a quarterly basis on initiatives being developed and imple-
    22  mented within the iCenter, as well as on  the  sources  and  amounts  of
    23  resources used to support the iCenter.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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