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S1121Senate2017-2018 SessionSame asA1713

Create State Tech Innovation Center

Official 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”

Sponsor Rich FunkeSD-55+2 co-sponsorsAffects Finance
Status
Signed by Governor
Impact
8/10
Significant
Outcome
Signed into law

Bill progress

Signed into law

What's happening

This bill creates a State Information Technology Innovation Center ("iCenter") to pilot technology solutions for government, with oversight, transparency, and outreach to diverse businesses.

Why it matters

  1. Encourages government modernization. by creating a dedicated center (“iCenter”) to pilot and test technology solutions for state and local government needs, potentially leading to more efficient and effective public services.

  2. Promotes fairness and transparency. in government tech procurement by explicitly prohibiting vendor favoritism and requiring all technology contracts to continue following competitive bidding and anti-circumvention safeguards.

  3. Enhances inclusivity and economic opportunity. through mandated outreach to minority- and women-owned businesses, small businesses, and service-disabled veteran-owned enterprises, aiming to broaden participation in government technology initiatives.

  4. Requires ongoing public accountability. by mandating detailed annual reports on iCenter activities, outcomes, vendor participation, and effectiveness, which must be posted online for public access and oversight.

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Create State Tech Innovation Center

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Rich Funke

Senator · Senate District 55

Chair, Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks And Recreation

History

  1. Approval memo.25
  2. Signed chap.427
  3. Delivered to governor
  4. Returned to senate
  5. Passed assembly
  6. Ordered to third reading rules cal.526
  7. Substituted for A1713A
  8. Referred to ways and means
  9. Returned to assembly
  10. Repassed senate
  11. Amended on third reading (t) 1121a
  12. Vote reconsidered - restored to third reading
Show 9 earlier actions
  1. Returned to senate
  2. Recalled from assembly
  3. Referred to governmental operations
  4. Delivered to assembly
  5. Passed senateVote 58–0
  6. Advanced to third reading
  7. 2nd report cal.
  8. 1st report cal.172
  9. Referred to energy and telecommunications

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

A1713Assembly

Create State Tech Center

Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Andrew Hevesi

Impact 8 · Significant0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

1121--A Cal. No. 172

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 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation to the creation of a state information technology innovation center; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The state technology law is amended by adding a new section 103-a to read as follows:

§ 103-a. State information technology innovation center. 1. The director may establish a state information technology innovation center or "iCenter" to develop, pilot, and consider technology solutions to assist the state, state agencies, authorities, municipalities and other governmental entities find potential solutions to their technology needs or requirements. The director shall ensure the iCenter complies with all state laws, rules, regulations, and policies. Vendor participation in the iCenter shall not be construed to:

(a) create preferred status for any vendor in any government procurement, or

(b) abrogate the requirement that technology procurements are awarded pursuant to all applicable laws, including such laws requiring a competitive process.

2. The director shall implement, by regulation, procedures to carry out the provisions of this section. Such procedures shall include, but not be limited to:

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(a) establishing the process for selecting vendors for participation in the iCenter, which shall be a public process;

(b) establishing a process to determine which technology needs or requirements shall be iCenter initiatives; and

(c) establishing safeguards to ensure the iCenter does not function in a manner that results in the circumvention of competitive bidding, including but not limited to through single and sole source exemptions.

3. The director shall conduct an outreach campaign informing the public of the iCenter and shall conduct specific outreach to minority and women-owned business enterprises certified pursuant to article fifteen-A of the executive law, small businesses as such term is defined in section one hundred thirty-one of the economic development law, and service disabled veteran owned business enterprises certified pursuant to article seventeen-B of the executive law to inform such businesses of iCenter initiatives.

4. Every October first, beginning in two thousand eighteen, the director shall submit a report to the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, and the governor detailing iCenter initiatives undertaken in the prior year. Such report shall include but not be limited to: an identification of any resources used to support the iCenter in the prior year; the number and nature of iCenter initiatives undertaken in the prior year; the identity of vendors that participated in the iCenter in the prior year, any iCenter initiatives piloted in the prior year that were subsequently awarded a procurement contract with any state agency; any future initiatives being considered for inclusion in the iCenter; and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the iCenter. Such report shall be publicly posted on the office's website.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed June 30, 2020.

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Sponsor's memo

Title of bill

An act to amend the state technology law, in relation to the creation of a state information technology innovation center; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

Purpose

The purpose of this legislation is to allow for the development of a state information technology innovation center to facilitate the examination and analysis of technology that would benefit New York State and its residents.

Summary of provisions

This bill amends the state technology law by adding a new section 103-a, which will create a state information technology center, empower the Director of Information Technology to develop and implement necessary regulations for implementation and requires annual reporting to the legislature beginning in 2018.

Justification

This legislation would permit the state director of the office of information technology services to operate a state information technology innovation center. Currently, New York's leaders in information technology face challenges with non-interoperable technologies, and investments in technologies that have not functioned as anticipated. The state information technology innovation center would establish a site to examine and gauge technologies across agencies to authenticate functionality, guarantee interoperability, and comprehend the effects that influence organizational output.

The center would assess developing technologies, and integrate technology that has not been utilized or measured across the state enterprise, but is considered to be strategically important by agency Chief Information Officers. Agencies would have the capability to work with private sector vendors in order to facilitate pilot programs that will help determine best practices for managing any issue New York State faces related to technology.

Participation by vendors shall not be interpreted to create any type of preferential status, and would not repeal the requirement that the state director of the office of information technology services ensure that agency and statewide requirements for information technology support are awarded based on a competitive process that follows technology procurement guidelines.

Legislative history

S.3095A/ A.690A of 2015-2016; Passed Senate A.10187 of 2013-2014; Referred to governmental operations

Fiscal implications

To be determined.

Effective date

This act shall take effect on the 90th day after it shall have become a Law and be deemed repealed on June 30, 2020.

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