Washington State House of Representatives Office of Program Research | BILL ANALYSIS |
General Government & Information Technology Committee |
SB 5024
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Brief Description: Making conforming amendments made necessary by reorganizing and streamlining central service functions, powers, and duties of state government.
Sponsors: Senator Benton; by request of Department of Enterprise Services.
Brief Summary of Bill |
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Hearing Date:
Staff: Marsha Reilly (786-7135).
Background:
In 2011 a bill was enacted to reorganize and streamline the central-service functions, powers, and duties of state government. Briefly, the bill did the following:
created the Department of Enterprise Services (DES);
created the Office of the Chief Information Officer within the Office of Financial Management (OFM);
created a Technology Services Board;
abolished the Department of General Administration and transferred its duties to the DES;
abolished the Department of Personnel and transferred its policy-making functions to the OFM and its operating functions to the DES;
abolished the State Printer and transferred its functions to the DES;
transferred the risk management and personal service contracts functions from the OFM to the DES; and
replaced the Department of Information Services with the Consolidated Technology Services Agency.
Summary of Bill:
Technical changes are made to correct and conform statutes related to the reorganizing and streamlining of central-service functions, powers, and duties of state government. Department names are corrected, statutes in which the policy directives were completed are decodified, and statutes that are outdated or duplicative are repealed.
Appropriation: None.
Fiscal Note: Not requested.
Effective Date: The bill takes effect 90 days after adjournment of the session in which the bill is passed.