State & Local Government Policy, Business and Technology

Florida House Committee Moves Forward with Bill to Terminate the State IT Agency

Government Technology: Despite the warnings of higher costs and disjointed operations from prominent technology experts, the Florida House Appropriations Committee passed legislation on April 5 to terminate the Agency for State Technology (AST). The decision is the latest in a lengthy history of instability for the state’s technology authority, which has been reworked or eliminated several times in recent years.

Last week, the House Government Operations and Technology Appropriations subcommittee nearly unanimously pushed through HB 5301, which calls for the removal of AST’s management authority over the state’s data center, enables agencies to move out of the state data center at-will while largely removing enterprise rulemaking authority and rebranding the agency.

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