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IN HB1572
Bill
Status
1/17/2019
Primary Sponsor
Matthew Lehman
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AI Summary
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Contractors with state agency contracts exceeding $100,000 for professional or technical services must use software to verify hours billed, including keystroke tracking, mouse event tracking, and screenshots taken at least every 3 minutes
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State agencies cannot pay contractors for computer-based work unless hours are verified by the required monitoring software
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Contractors must store all collected data for at least 7 years and provide access upon request to the state agency or state board of accounts
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Contractors are prohibited from charging fees to state agencies or the state board of accounts for software access or data retrieval
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Effective date: July 1, 2019
Legislative Description
Electronic monitoring of government contractors. Establishes requirements for software that records data and hours worked for a contractor that enters into a contract that exceeds $100,000 for professional or technical services with a state agency. Provides that a contractor must store the data for not less than seven years and that the data must be accessible, on request, to the state agency or state board of accounts. Prohibits a contractor from charging a fee to the state agency or the state board of accounts for access to or the use of either of the following: (1) Software used to verify hours worked. (2) A retrieval of data that is collected by the software.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
1/17/2019