Relates to the contents of the budget with respect to appropriations for certain information technology projects; directs the director of the budget to set forth appropriations for any information technology projects involving certain contracts proposed for funding in the budget as separate items of appropriation; directs the director of the budget to transmit a report which includes certain project specific information for certain proposed appropriations to the chairs of the senate finance and the assembly ways and means committees; defines the term "information technology".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4234
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. BRENNAN, DESTITO, ORTIZ, CAHILL, JAFFEE, COLTON
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK, CYMBROWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT,
GOTTFRIED, LIFTON, McENENY, MILLMAN, PEOPLES-STOKES, PHEFFER, SWEENEY
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to contents of the
budget relating to appropriations for certain information technology
projects, and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating there-
to
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 22 of the state finance law is
2 REPEALED, and a new subdivision 14 is added to read as follows:
3 14. a. With respect to appropriations for any information technology
4 project involving one or more contracts and totalling ten million
5 dollars or more proposed for funding in the budget submitted annually by
6 the governor to the legislature, excluding capital plan projects, the
7 amount requested to fund each such project shall be set forth as a sepa-
8 rate item of appropriation. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
9 contrary, such appropriation or a portion thereof shall be made avail-
10 able only upon the submission to the director of the budget, the chair-
11 person of the senate finance committee and the chairperson of the assem-
12 bly ways and means committee, of a project design, development and
13 implementation plan prepared by the commissioner of the lead agency for
14 the project. Such plan shall include, but not be limited to, a schedule
15 for the design, development and implementation of the project that iden-
16 tifies functional design components, specifications, and requirements,
17 key milestones, timetable, the estimated cost of each phase of the
18 project and weighs the appropriateness of discrete technical and func-
19 tional project components. The plan shall document the rationale for
20 project scope and method of procurement, including whether the project
21 will be procured as a single contract or as separate contracts of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 discrete technical and functional components. Any expenditure made
2 pursuant to such appropriation shall be in accordance with such plan.
3 b. Within thirty days following the submission of the budget by the
4 governor for each fiscal year, beginning with the two thousand eleven--
5 two thousand twelve fiscal year, the director of the budget shall trans-
6 mit to the chairs of the senate finance committee and the assembly ways
7 and means committee a report which includes project specific information
8 for the proposed appropriations identified in paragraph a of this subdi-
9 vision and any other projects which appear as separate items of appro-
10 priation excluding capital plan projects. Such report shall set forth:
11 (i) existing or anticipated contracts, including the agency or agen-
12 cies which let or anticipate letting such contracts;
13 (ii) vendor name when available;
14 (iii) a description of the project and contract purpose in less than
15 thirty words;
16 (iv) whether such contracts are or are anticipated to be centralized
17 contracts;
18 (v) anticipated life time contract costs, broken down by fiscal year;
19 (vi) contract amendments and/or change orders for the current fiscal
20 year, including value if any and reasons therefor;
21 (vii) the estimated date of contract completion, including annual
22 timetable for a multi-year contract and any change in such timetable
23 since the previous report and the reasons therefor;
24 (viii) the total of all expenditures on such specific contracts made
25 prior to the then current fiscal year, including all agencies which have
26 incurred such costs including when expenditures are made off of a
27 centralized contract;
28 (ix) the total amount of expenditures on such specific contracts esti-
29 mated to be made during the then current fiscal year and during each of
30 the next ensuing five fiscal years for multi-year contracts, including
31 all agencies which have incurred such costs including when expenditures
32 are made off of a centralized contract;
33 (x) whether such project is financed by the issuance of certificates
34 of participation or similar instruments and the associated costs related
35 thereto; and
36 (xi) such other information as necessary to fully describe the state
37 obligation with regard to such specific or anticipated contracts.
38 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 2-b to
39 read as follows:
40 § 2-b. Additional definition. As used in subdivision fourteen of
41 section twenty-two of this chapter, the term "information technology"
42 shall mean a good, service or good and service that results in a
43 digital, electronic or similar technical method of achieving a practical
44 purpose or in improvements in productivity, including but not limited to
45 information management, equipment, software, operating systems, inter-
46 face systems, interconnected systems, telecommunications, data manage-
47 ment, networks, and network management, consulting, supplies, facili-
48 ties, maintenance and training.
49 § 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.
