Bill Text: NJ A4577 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires State departments and Office of Technology to provide reports on proposed technology upgrades.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-28 - Assembly Floor Amendment Passed (Wimberly) [A4577 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4577-Amended.html
[Second Reprint]
ASSEMBLY, No. 4577
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED JUNE 13, 2024
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman MITCHELLE DRULIS
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Freiman
SYNOPSIS
Requires State departments and Office of Information Technology to provide reports on proposed technology upgrades.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As amended by the General Assembly on October 28, 2024.
An Act requiring State departments and the Office of Information Technology to provide reports on proposed technology upgrades and supplementing P.L.2007, c.56 (1[C.52:18A-224] C.52:18A-2191 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Each State department, agency, and instrumentality shall provide a report to 2[the Governor, the Legislature, and]2 the Office of Information Technology detailing:
(1) Ways in which the department, agency, or instrumentality may enhance digital services in order to improve constituent interactions with the department, agency, or instrumentality to create a more cohesive experience between online, mobile, and in-person services by conducting user research to identify key needs, implementing changes based on feedback, and designing new service offerings based on emergency needs; and
(2) Ways in which the department, agency, or instrumentality may improve remote work capabilities for employees by procuring updated hardware and software, providing trainings on digital tools, digitizing paper-based processes, and creating flexibility in departmental, agency, or instrumentality rules in order to continue processes during an emergency.
Each department, agency, and instrumentality of the State shall provide the report to 2[the Governor and the Legislature, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), and to]2 the Office of Information Technology within one year of the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature 2[of] as2 this bill) and annually thereafter.
b. The Office of Information Technology shall 2[provide a report detailing] summarize the findings of the reports provided by each State department, agency, and instrumentality in a single summary report which shall include a detailed analysis of such reports and recommendations as may be appropriate to achieve the goals set forth in subsection a. of this section. The summary report shall also provide2 recommendations as to how State departments, agencies, and instrumentalities may improve constituent services and employee remote work through upgraded technology. The recommendations shall include strategies for transitioning operating services and operational tasks to cloud computing services, integrating data into a single portal or location, maintaining private and secure access to government and constituent information, and transitioning remote work technology to be based in a web portal instead of a Virtual Private Network. The report shall include specific hardware and software upgrade recommendations.
The Office of Information Technology shall provide the 2summary2 report 2created pursuant to this subsection2 to the Governor and the Legislature, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), within one year of the reception of reports from the State departments, agencies, and instrumentalities and annually thereafter.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
