This bill appropriates additional funds to the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) for fiscal years 2025 and 2026, totaling $10,934,000. The funding is allocated across personnel costs, operating expenditures, and capital outlay, with specific amounts designated from the General Fund and the Administration and Accounting Services Fund. Notably, the bill increases the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions for ITS by twenty-two for the fiscal year 2026, enhancing the agency's capacity to manage its operations.
Additionally, the bill mandates the Office of ITS and the Division of Financial Management to submit a report by December 1, 2025, detailing recommendations for cost efficiencies in information technology equipment and services. This report will include a survey of expenditures related to information technology across executive branch state agencies, aimed at improving the allocation of appropriations. The appropriations made under this act are subject to specified conditions, limitations, and restrictions, and an emergency clause is included to ensure immediate implementation of certain provisions upon passage.