Amendment #1149 to H4700

Cybersecurity and Resiliency Trust Fund

Mrs. Campbell of Methuen moves to amend the bill by adding the following section:

SECTION XXX. Chapter 7D of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:-

Section 12. (a) There shall be established and set up a separate expendable trust account, to be known as the Cybersecurity and Resiliency Trust Fund. The chief information officer for the commonwealth shall expend funds in the trust without further appropriation to support activities related to the procurement of end-user devices in compliance with any security and resiliency directives that the executive office of technology services and security may develop. The comptroller shall annually transfer to the trust, from the General Fund, an amount determined by the secretary of administration and finance in consultation with the chief information officer, not to exceed $20,000,000. The unexpended balance in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall remain available for expenditure in subsequent fiscal years. No expenditure made from the fund shall cause the fund to be in deficit at any point.

(b) Not later than 30 days after the start of each fiscal year, the chief information officer shall submit a spending plan to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means. The spending plan shall include the expected quantity and total cost of any procurements planned for that fiscal year for each client department. The spending plan shall include the fund balance at the start of the current fiscal year and expenditures and incomes from the prior fiscal year. Spending from the fund shall be subject to approval of the secretary of administration and finance. The chief information officer shall report not less than every 6 months to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means on how the funds have been expended and how expenditures have differed from the spending plan.

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #1149 to H4700

Cybersecurity and Resiliency Trust Fund