REFERENCE TITLE: automation; 2022-2023

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

 

 

 

HB 2856

 

Introduced by

Representative Cobb (with permission of Committee on Rules)

 

 

An Act

 

amending section 18-401, Arizona Revised Statutes; repealing section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by Laws 2021, chapter 405, section 22; amending section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by Laws 2018, chapter 279, section 28; amending section 41-1733, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to automation.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 18-401, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE18-401. Information technology fund

A. The information technology fund is established for use by the department and the committee. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation.

B. State agencies that are subject to section 41-750, all budget units and the legislative and judicial branches of state government shall contribute a pro rata share of the overall cost of information technology services provided by the department or committee. The pro rata share is payable by payroll fund source, and the resultant amount shall be deposited in the information technology fund. For all budget units and the legislative and judicial branches of state government, the pro rata share is .43 0.61 percent of the total payroll. Total payroll includes all fund sources, including the state general fund, federal monies, special revenue funds, intergovernmental revenue monies, trust funds and other payroll fund sources.

C. A claim for the pro rata share percentage payment shall be submitted according to the fund source, with the accompanying payroll, to the department of administration for deposit in the information technology fund.

D. Notwithstanding section 35-190, monies in the information technology fund do not revert to the state general fund at the end of each fiscal year. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Repeal

Section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by Laws 2021, chapter 405, section 22, is repealed.

Sec. 3. Section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by Laws 2018, chapter 279, section 28, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-714. Automation projects fund; subaccounts; exemption; annual report; purpose; joint legislative budget committee review

A. The automation projects fund is established consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature. The department of administration shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation. The director shall establish a separate subaccount for each agency that implements, upgrades or maintains automation and information technology projects. Monies in each subaccount are subject to legislative appropriation. Monies may not be transferred between agency subaccounts. Monies in the fund and are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations, except that on completion of an automation and information technology project, all monies remaining unexpended and unencumbered in the subaccount revert to their fund of origin. On or before September 1 of each year, the department shall submit a report to the joint legislative budget committee on each reversion made pursuant to this subsection in the prior fiscal year.

B. Monies in the fund shall be used to implement, upgrade or maintain automation and information technology projects for any state agency.

C. Before the expenditure of any monies from the fund, the joint legislative budget committee shall review the expenditure plan presented by the department for the fiscal year in which the monies are to be spent.   The expenditure plan shall include the project cost, deliverables, timeline for completion and method of procurement. END_STATUTE

Sec. 4. Section 41-1733, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-1733. School safety interoperability fund; school safety program; annual report

A. The school safety interoperability fund is established consisting of monies appropriated to the fund by the legislature. The state treasurer department of ADMINISTRATION shall administer the fund.  monies in the fund is subject to legislative appropriation are continuously appropriated. Monies in the fund shall be distributed to the sheriff of a county or A city or town police department that establishes a school safety pilot program and may be used only for a school safety pilot program that meets all of the following:

1. Encompasses up to eight hundred schools that are across three different counties throughout this stateOne of the counties must have a population that is more than three million persons and the other two counties must each have a population that is less than five hundred thousand persons.

2. In a school safety pilot program county, enables the deployment of a secure, multimedia data communications system to a user base consisting of public safety agencies and public schools providing instruction in any combination of kindergarten programs and grades one through twelve.

3. Provides a communications solution environment that allows for:

(a) Identifying system users' identity, location and operational status during an incident.

(b) Secure text messaging and file sharing to all users involved in an incident.

(c) Secure sharing of collaborative maps, building floor plans and images between schools and public safety agencies.

(d) Integrating manually activated panic alarm systems that, when activated, establish direct collaboration between schools and public safety agencies.

(e) Using multiple forms of real-time communications and information collaboration, including voice and full-motion video sharing, during an incident.

4. Is capable of being deployed to end users on existing communications assets owned by participating entities.

5. Allows each participating entity to maintain discretionary real-time control of all communications assets owned or operated by the entity.

6. Encrypts all media communications.

7. Is certified under the United States department of homeland security safety act as qualified anti-terrorism technology.

8. Is compatible with the federal emergency management agency interoperable gateway system for disaster communications.

9. Ensures student and staff privacy.

10. Enables integration to school access control systems to allow remote lock down by law enforcement through the same multimedia system.

B. On or before November 1 of each year, the sheriff of a county or A city or town police department that has established a school safety pilot program pursuant to this section shall submit a report to the joint legislative budget committee of all expenditures made for the school safety pilot program in the preceding fiscal year. END_STATUTE