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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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 initiatives27being 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. LBD02481-04-8S. 7308 2 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.