Florida Senate - 2011             CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1738
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Conference Committee on CS for SB 1738 recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Conference Committee Amendment (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 1. Section 215.922, Florida Statutes, is created to
    7  read:
    8         215.922Agency for Enterprise Business Services.—The Agency
    9  for Enterprise Business Services is created within the
   10  Department of Management Services.
   11         (1) The head of the agency shall be the Governor and
   12  Cabinet.
   13         (2) The agency is a separate budget entity and is not
   14  subject to control, supervision, or direction by the Department
   15  of Management Services, including, but not limited to,
   16  purchasing, transitions involving real or personal property,
   17  personnel, or budgetary matters.
   18         (3) The agency shall have an executive director who is the
   19  Enterprise Financial Business Operations Officer. The officer
   20  shall be appointed by the Governor with at least three
   21  affirmative votes of the Governor and Cabinet, subject to
   22  confirmation by the Senate. The officer serves at the pleasure
   23  of the Governor and Cabinet. The Governor may appoint an interim
   24  director until an executive director is appointed by the
   25  Governor and confirmed by the Cabinet.
   26         (4) The agency shall have the following duties and
   27  responsibilities:
   28         (a) Develop and submit an Enterprise Financial Business
   29  Strategic Plan to the Governor and Cabinet, the President of the
   30  Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by
   31  December 1, 2012. The plan must include, but not be limited to,
   32  the following:
   33         1. An inventory of all agency financial business systems
   34  that are maintained by executive branch agencies. At a minimum
   35  the inventory must include the following:
   36         a. The name of each system, the number of end users who
   37  must use the system to perform their job functions, and the
   38  associated financial business processes and a description of the
   39  system functionality that supports these processes.
   40         b. The total cost of operating and maintaining each agency
   41  financial business system on a fiscal-year basis. The total cost
   42  calculation must, at a minimum, include staffing requirements,
   43  hardware and software costs, and contracted services and
   44  external service provider costs.
   45         c. A description of any projects and enhancements planned
   46  or underway for each agency financial business system for the
   47  2011-2012 and 2012-2013 fiscal years.
   48         d. Any state or federal laws that require the
   49  implementation and use of the agency financial business system.
   50         2. Identification of and recommendations relating to the
   51  financial business functions that should be standardized and
   52  proposed as enterprise financial business functions. For
   53  purposes of this identification, an enterprise financial
   54  business function is a function that is currently common or
   55  should be common among multiple state agencies.
   56         3. An assessment of whether any agency financial business
   57  systems should be considered for inclusion in the Florida
   58  Financial Management Information System. For purposes of this
   59  assessment, in order for an agency financial business system to
   60  be considered for inclusion in the system it must:
   61         a. Provide financial and administrative data and
   62  information or functionality that is essential to a statewide
   63  financial operation.
   64         b. Provide a financial business service that the agency
   65  recommends should be an enterprise financial business service.
   66         c. Provide financial data, information, or functionality
   67  that is not partially or completely duplicated by a subsystem
   68  identified in s. 215.94.
   69         d. Demonstrate that the agency financial business system’s
   70  financial data, information, or functionality can be provided in
   71  a cost-effective manner.
   72         4. The status of projects currently underway that affect
   73  agency financial business systems and the subsystems of the
   74  Florida Financial Management Information System.
   75         5. The total cost of operating and maintaining each
   76  subsystem of the Florida Financial Management Information System
   77  pursuant to s. 215.94 on a fiscal-year basis, the staff required
   78  for operation and maintenance of each subsystem, the number of
   79  end users who must use the subsystem to perform their job
   80  functions, and federal law specifically requiring the
   81  implementation of the subsystem.
   82         6. Recommendations for modifications and enhancements to
   83  the Florida Financial Management Information System which should
   84  include projects proposed to replace or enhance its subsystems
   85  and the decommissioning of any agency financial business
   86  systems. Recommendations must include, but not be limited to:
   87         a. A description of the enterprise financial business
   88  services that should be provided by the Florida Financial
   89  Management Information System. The description must be
   90  sufficient to determine the functionality that will be provided
   91  by the system and to identify which agency financial business
   92  system services should be incorporated as enterprise financial
   93  business services;
   94         b. A proposal of the agency financial business systems that
   95  should be considered for inclusion in the Florida Financial
   96  Management Information System;
   97         c. Major initiatives and implementation strategies
   98  necessary to achieve the recommendations;
   99         d. The proposed standardization of state financial data
  100  elements and codes and recommended changes to ensure the use of
  101  common data codes by the subsystems;
  102         e. Proposals to eliminate specific impediments to achieving
  103  the standardized enterprise financial business services;
  104         f. Proposed substantive and fiscal changes necessary to
  105  implement the recommended changes to the Florida Financial
  106  Information Management System; and
  107         g. Proposed governance structure changes to the Florida
  108  Financial Management Board and its coordinating council.
  109         (b) Provide assistance to the Chief Financial Officer in
  110  the recommendation of a uniform chart of accounts.
  111         (c) Serve as a clearinghouse for enterprise information
  112  relating to the planning, development, implementation, and
  113  evaluation of improvements to enterprise financial business
  114  services.
  115         (d) Develop and submit to the Governor and Cabinet, the
  116  President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
  117  Representatives by December 1, 2012, recommendations for
  118  revisions to the Florida Financial Management Information
  119  Systems Act.
  120         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.
  121  
  122  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
  123         And the title is amended as follows:
  124         Delete everything before the enacting clause
  125  and insert:
  126                        A bill to be entitled                      
  127         An act relating to state financial information;
  128         creating s. 215.922, F.S.; establishing the Agency for
  129         Enterprise Business Services within the Department of
  130         Management Services; providing that the office is a
  131         separate budget entity not subject to the department;
  132         providing an executive director appointed by the
  133         Governor, confirmed by the Cabinet, and subject to
  134         confirmation by the Senate; providing for an executive
  135         director; providing the duties of the agency;
  136         providing an effective date.