HB 1195-Relating to Technology
On Tuesday, February 16th, HB 1195, relating to Technology, by Rep. James Grant (R-Tampa) was heard before the House Government Operations Appropriations Subcommittee and passed by a vote of 11 yeas to 0 nays. AIF stood in support of this bill.

HB 1195 establishes a chief data officer (CDO) within AST; requires AST to create reporting format for certain data & publish such data in indexed catalog; requires that government entities annually provide indexed list of certain data to AST; provides list requirements. Once the CDO is in place, that position must request and receive data from any state or local government entity, as needed, to establish the interoperability of public data, for the purpose of maintaining and updating the data catalog.

This bill will now head to the House State Affairs Committee.

AIF supports legislative changes that will designate systems and processes to be implemented and operated at an enterprise (statewide or agency grouping) level and provide operational authority and funding to the AST.