Virginia Information Technologies Agency; to delegate powers & responsibilities. (HB2023)

Introduced By

Del. Tom Rust (R-Herndon) with support from co-patron Sen. Walter Stosch (R-Glen Allen)

Progress

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 Introduced
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 Passed Committee
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 Passed House
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 Passed Senate
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 Signed by Governor
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 Became Law

Description

Powers of VITA. Authorizes Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA), subject to approval by the Secretary of Technology, to delegate to an agency within the executive branch the power to provide for the centralized marketing, provision, leasing, and executing of license agreements for electronic access to public information and government services through the Internet, wireless devices, personal digital assistants, kiosks, or other such related media. The delegated agency would be authorized to fix and collect fees and charges for such services. Amends § 2.2-2010 (“Additional powers of VITA.”), of the Code of Virginia. View Full Text »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed
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Comments

emily lockhart writes:

Hmm, does anyone understand what this bill really does?!?

Reading the full text as passed, it sounds like VITA will now be authorized to delegate to another agency most of the tasks it was supposedly handling itself: Planning/forecasting IT needs, developing IT regulations and standards, managing IT inventories, establishing a fee structure, etc. etc. -- all of these in addition to the sole point offered as bill content here on RS, which is to provide the means for Web and interactive government services.

Does anyone else find this strange? If the idea here is to replace the famously and hugely incompetent VITA with another agency, does anyone else quake at the very thought that Nero gets to actually hand-pick his own successor?!?

Posted 40 months ago.
emily lockhart writes:

NEVER MIND!
Someone with some actual legislative smarts explained all this to me. The bill simply repeats what is already true and then adds the one new provision, which is to allow VEAP to manage the app developments, etc. on the state portal and for state gov't generally.
Sorry!

Posted 40 months ago.