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House Bill 4018 |
House Author: Capriglione et al. |
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Effective: 6-18-21 |
Senate Sponsor: Nelson et al. |
House Bill 4018 amends the Government Code to create the technology improvement and modernization fund as a special fund in the state treasury outside the general revenue fund and restricts the use of money in the fund to improving and modernizing state agency information resources, including legacy system projects and cybersecurity projects.
House Bill 4018 creates the Joint Oversight Committee on Investment in Information Technology Improvement and Modernization Projects to review investment and funding strategies for projects to improve or modernize state agency information resources technologies. The bill requires the committee to provide a biennial report to the legislature that identifies existing and planned projects to improve or modernize state agency information resources technologies, the method of funding for each project identified by the committee, a determination by the committee of the amount necessary to fully fund each identified project to completion, and strategies developed by the committee to ensure a long‑term investment solution for these projects is in place. The committee is abolished and these provisions expire September 1, 2026.
House Bill 4018 requires each executive and legislative branch state agency to use money appropriated to the agency by the state to prepare an agency‑wide plan outlining the manner in which the agency intends to transition its information technology and data‑related services and capabilities into a more modern, integrated, secure, and effective technological environment and requires each such agency to submit their plan to the Department of Information Resources, the joint oversight committee, and the applicable standing legislative committees.