Bill Text: NH SB210 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the licensing of software applications by state agencies.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-06-03 - Signed by the Governor on 05/31/2024; Chapter 0034; Effective 05/31/2024 [SB210 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-SB210-Introduced.html

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SB 210-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2023 SESSION

23-0847

09/04

 

SENATE BILL 210-FN

 

AN ACT relative to the licensing of software applications by state agencies.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires all software contracts entered into by a state agency to run and install on the hardware of the agency's choosing.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0847

09/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to the licensing of software applications by state agencies.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; State Government Software Contracts.  Amend RSA 21-R:8-a by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V.  The terms of a contract entered into by any agency for the licensing of software applications designed to run on generally available desktop or server hardware shall not limit the ability of the state agency to install or run the software on the hardware of the agency's choosing.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.

 

LBA

23-0847

Revised 4/17/23

 

SB 210-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT relative to the licensing of software applications by state agencies.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill, as introduced, as it is awaiting information from the Department of Information Technology.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Information Technology