HB 1021 Summary

• Appropriates $178.1 million total funds ($26.4 million general fund) to the Information Technology Department for the 2015-17 biennium, with salary and operating expense increases of $6.6 million and $6.3 million respectively.

• Requires 18 specified state agencies to obtain centralized desktop support services from the Information Technology Department, with $987,155 in appropriations across agencies for the biennium.

• Authorizes the Information Technology Department to request educational data, workforce information, and unemployment insurance wage data from state agencies for longitudinal data system compliance and program evaluations.

• Allocates $2.8 million in one-time funding for 2015-17, including $1.25 million for statewide longitudinal data system and $500,000 for health data study, none of which carry forward to the 2017-19 base budget.

• Directs the Information Technology Department to oversee statewide radio communications installations by state agencies in a cost-effective manner and implement recommendations from a statewide radio system assessment study.