HOUSE BILL REPORT
HB 1055
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As Reported by House Committee On:
General Government & Information Technology
Title: An act relating to conforming amendments made necessary by reorganizing and streamlining central service functions, powers, and duties of state government.
Brief Description: Making conforming amendments made necessary by reorganizing and streamlining central service functions, powers, and duties of state government.
Sponsors: Representatives Bergquist, Gregerson and Hudgins; by request of Department of Enterprise Services.
Brief History:
Committee Activity:
General Government & Information Technology: 1/20/15, 1/27/15 [DP].
Brief Summary of Bill |
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GENERAL GOVERNMENT & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY |
Majority Report: Do pass. Signed by 7 members: Representatives Hudgins, Chair; Senn, Vice Chair; MacEwen, Ranking Minority Member; Caldier, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; McCabe, Morris and Takko.
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.
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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names are corrected, statutes in which the policy directives were completed are decodified, and statutes that are outdated or duplicative are repealed.
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Appropriation: None.
Fiscal Note: Available.
Effective Date: The bill takes effect 90 days after adjournment of the session in which the bill is passed.
Staff Summary of Public Testimony:
(In support) The bill speaks for itself. It's only 112 pages of clean-up. The original bill changed state efficiencies and saved the state money and this bill reflects needed changes. This bill stems from a 2011 bill creating the Department of Enterprise Services and Consolidated Technology Services Agency. There are still some inconsistencies in statute and this bill corrects those inconsistencies. Last year's bill did not pass due to concerns regarding some of the provisions, and those provisions have been removed from this year's bill.
(Opposed) None.
Persons Testifying: Representative Bergquist, prime sponsor; and Jarrett Sacks, Department of Enterprise Services.
Persons Signed In To Testify But Not Testifying: None.