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House Bill 2472 |
House Author: Cook |
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Effective: 9-1-13 |
Senate Sponsor: Birdwell |
House Bill 2472 amends provisions of the Government Code and Human Resources Code to continue the Department of Information Resources until September 1, 2021, and to set out provisions relating to the DIR's functions. The bill extends the comptroller's authority to perform certain state procurement functions to September 1, 2021, and subjects the comptroller's state purchasing authority in regard to the Texas Council on Purchasing from People with Disabilities to the Texas Sunset Act.
House Bill 2472 requires the DIR and the comptroller to establish a procurement coordination committee composed of essential DIR personnel and the comptroller and sets out specific requirements relating to the coordination of procurement activities between the DIR and the comptroller.
House Bill 2472 requires the governing board of the DIR to appoint a customer advisory committee composed of representatives of customers who receive services from each of the department's key programs to advise the board of the status of the department's delivery of critical statewide services. The bill requires the DIR to adopt a process to determine the amount of the administrative fee the department charges to administer any of its programs and to report all the administrative fees it sets to the Legislative Budget Board. The bill requires the comptroller to establish in the state treasury the statewide technology account to serve as a revolving fund account for the administration of provisions relating to statewide technology centers and the clearing fund account to serve as a revolving fund account for the administration of provisions relating to the purchase of information technology commodity items.