AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1999 TO PROVIDE FOR SUPPLEMENTING CERTAIN EXISTING APPROPRIATIONS AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general appropriation act and other appropriation acts for fiscal year 1999 and for certain other activities and projects in said fiscal year, the sum set forth in section 2A is hereby appropriated from the general fund for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified herein and subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999.
NO SECTION 2.
SECTION 2A.
- For a reserve for projects to correct the date-handling logic problems,
so-called, in critical commonwealth computing systems in order to sustain
uninterrupted operations through the year 2000 and beyond; provided, that upon
approval of the secretary of administration and finance, funds appropriated
herein may be transferred to other items of appropriation and allocations
thereof for such projects; provided further, that said secretary shall file a
quarterly report with the house and senate committees on ways and means
delineating, by agency and project, the amounts which have been expended or
transferred herefrom, the status of the projects, anticipated completion dates
of the projects and estimates of any additional funds necessary for the
completion of the projects; provided further, that no funds shall be
appropriated or allocated from this item until the chief information officer
files with the house and senate committees on ways and means a report which
shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) a delineation, by
agency and project, of the specific date-handling logic problems to be
remediated by the expenditure of these funds; (b) a delineation of each
agency's date-handling logic problem remediation efforts undertaken prior to
receipt of these funds, including the number of units remediated by software
upgrades or patches, so-called, BIOS updates, so-called, or by hardware
upgrades; (c) an explanation of the criteria developed by the chief
information officer for the proposed distribution of the funds appropriated
herein, including the chief information officer's assessment of whether the
funds appropriated herein shall be used for the replacement of existing
noncompliant systems or for the initial purchase of new systems; (d) an
account, by agency and project, of the number, type and systems specifications
of personal computers, printers, facsimile machines, phone systems or other
peripherals, so-called, to be purchased for each project and a description of
how the purchases remediate the date-handling logic problems; (e) detailing,
by agency and project, the number, type and systems specifications of personal
computers, printers, facsimile machines, phone systems or other peripherals,
so-called, to be replaced for each project; and (f) detailing, for each
project proposed to be funded herein, the projected impact on the service
delivery or quotidian operations resulting from failure to remediate the
date-handling logic problems; and provided further, that the funds appropriated
herein shall be available for expenditure until June 30, 2000
$20,000,000
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.