Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SPB 7026
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  03/20/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Harrell) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 2537 - 2901
    4  and insert:
    5         6.State chief of information technology workforce
    6  development.
    7         (2)BUREAUS.
    8         (a)The Division of Enterprise Information Technology
    9  Services shall include:
   10         1.The Bureau of Enterprise Information Technology
   11  Operations, responsible for assessing state agency information
   12  technology needs and risks as established under s. 282.006,
   13  Florida Statutes.
   14         2.The Bureau of Enterprise Information Technology Quality
   15  Assurance, responsible for activities established under s.
   16  282.006, Florida Statutes.
   17         3.The Bureau of Enterprise Information Technology Project
   18  Management, responsible for project management oversight and
   19  activities established under s. 282.006, Florida Statutes.
   20         4.The Bureau of Enterprise Information Technology Contract
   21  Management, responsible for contract management oversight and
   22  activities established under s. 282.006, Florida Statutes.
   23         (b)The Division of Enterprise Information Technology
   24  Purchasing shall include:
   25         1.The Bureau of Enterprise Information Technology
   26  Procurement Services, responsible for procurement activities
   27  established under s. 282.006, Florida Statutes.
   28         2.The Bureau of Enterprise Information Technology
   29  Procurement Policy and Oversight, responsible for activities
   30  established under s. 282.006, Florida Statutes.
   31         (3) WORKGROUP.
   32         (a) The chief information officer policy workgroup shall be
   33  composed of all state agency chief information officers.
   34         (b)The purpose of the workgroup is to provide the
   35  Legislature with input and feedback regarding the structure,
   36  budget, and governance of the Agency for State Systems and
   37  Enterprise Technology.
   38         (c) The chair of the workgroup shall be the interim state
   39  chief information officer.
   40         (d) The voting members of the workgroup shall include the
   41  chair of the workgroup and the chief information officers from
   42  the Department of Financial Services, the Department of
   43  Agriculture and Consumer Services, and the Department of Legal
   44  Affairs.
   45         (e) The chair of the workgroup shall submit a report to the
   46  Governor, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Chief Financial
   47  Officer, the Attorney General, the President of the Senate, and
   48  the Speaker of the House of Representatives which includes
   49  recommendations and justifications for changes by December 1,
   50  2025. The final report must be voted on and accepted by a
   51  unanimous vote of the voting members of the workgroup.
   52         (f) The workgroup shall expire after submission of the
   53  report required in paragraph (e).
   54         Section 24. Section 282.201, Florida Statutes, is amended
   55  to read:
   56         282.201 State data center.—The state data center is
   57  established within the Northwest Regional Data Center pursuant
   58  to s. 282.0211 and shall meet or exceed the information
   59  technology standards specified in ss. 282.006 and 282.318 the
   60  department. The provision of data center services must comply
   61  with applicable state and federal laws, regulations, and
   62  policies, including all applicable security, privacy, and
   63  auditing requirements. The department shall appoint a director
   64  of the state data center who has experience in leading data
   65  center facilities and has expertise in cloud-computing
   66  management.
   67         (1) STATE DATA CENTER DUTIES.—The state data center shall:
   68         (a) Offer, develop, and support the services and
   69  applications defined in service-level agreements executed with
   70  its customer entities.
   71         (b) Maintain performance of the state data center by
   72  ensuring proper data backup; data backup recovery; disaster
   73  recovery; and appropriate security, power, cooling, fire
   74  suppression, and capacity.
   75         (c) Develop and implement business continuity and disaster
   76  recovery plans, and annually conduct a live exercise of each
   77  plan.
   78         (d) Enter into a service-level agreement with each customer
   79  entity to provide the required type and level of service or
   80  services. If a customer entity fails to execute an agreement
   81  within 60 days after commencement of a service, the state data
   82  center may cease service. A service-level agreement may not have
   83  a term exceeding 3 years and at a minimum must:
   84         1. Identify the parties and their roles, duties, and
   85  responsibilities under the agreement.
   86         2. State the duration of the contract term and specify the
   87  conditions for renewal.
   88         3. Identify the scope of work.
   89         4. Identify the products or services to be delivered with
   90  sufficient specificity to permit an external financial or
   91  performance audit.
   92         5. Establish the services to be provided, the business
   93  standards that must be met for each service, the cost of each
   94  service by agency application, and the metrics and processes by
   95  which the business standards for each service are to be
   96  objectively measured and reported.
   97         6. Provide a timely billing methodology to recover the
   98  costs of services provided to the customer entity pursuant to s.
   99  215.422.
  100         7. Provide a procedure for modifying the service-level
  101  agreement based on changes in the type, level, and cost of a
  102  service.
  103         8. Include a right-to-audit clause to ensure that the
  104  parties to the agreement have access to records for audit
  105  purposes during the term of the service-level agreement.
  106         9. Provide that a service-level agreement may be terminated
  107  by either party for cause only after giving the other party and
  108  the department notice in writing of the cause for termination
  109  and an opportunity for the other party to resolve the identified
  110  cause within a reasonable period.
  111         10. Provide for mediation of disputes by the Division of
  112  Administrative Hearings pursuant to s. 120.573.
  113         (e) For purposes of chapter 273, be the custodian of
  114  resources and equipment located in and operated, supported, and
  115  managed by the state data center.
  116         (f) Assume administrative access rights to resources and
  117  equipment, including servers, network components, and other
  118  devices, consolidated into the state data center.
  119         1. Upon consolidation, a state agency shall relinquish
  120  administrative rights to consolidated resources and equipment.
  121  State agencies required to comply with federal and state
  122  criminal justice information security rules and policies shall
  123  retain administrative access rights sufficient to comply with
  124  the management control provisions of those rules and policies;
  125  however, the state data center shall have the appropriate type
  126  or level of rights to allow the center to comply with its duties
  127  pursuant to this section. The Department of Law Enforcement
  128  shall serve as the arbiter of disputes pertaining to the
  129  appropriate type and level of administrative access rights
  130  pertaining to the provision of management control in accordance
  131  with the federal criminal justice information guidelines.
  132         2. The state data center shall provide customer entities
  133  with access to applications, servers, network components, and
  134  other devices necessary for entities to perform business
  135  activities and functions, and as defined and documented in a
  136  service-level agreement.
  137         (g) In its procurement process, show preference for cloud
  138  computing solutions that minimize or do not require the
  139  purchasing, financing, or leasing of state data center
  140  infrastructure, and that meet the needs of customer agencies,
  141  that reduce costs, and that meet or exceed the applicable state
  142  and federal laws, regulations, and standards for cybersecurity.
  143         (h) Assist customer entities in transitioning from state
  144  data center services to the Northwest Regional Data Center or
  145  other third-party cloud-computing services procured by a
  146  customer entity or by the Northwest Regional Data Center on
  147  behalf of a customer entity.
  148         (1)(2) USE OF THE STATE DATA CENTER.—
  149         (a) The following are exempt from the use of the state data
  150  center: the Department of Law Enforcement, the Department of the
  151  Lottery’s Gaming System, Systems Design and Development in the
  152  Office of Policy and Budget, the regional traffic management
  153  centers as described in s. 335.14(2) and the Office of Toll
  154  Operations of the Department of Transportation, the State Board
  155  of Administration, state attorneys, public defenders, criminal
  156  conflict and civil regional counsel, capital collateral regional
  157  counsel, and the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, and the
  158  Division of Emergency Management within the Executive Office of
  159  the Governor.
  160         (b) The Division of Emergency Management is exempt from the
  161  use of the state data center. This paragraph expires July 1,
  162  2025.
  163         (2)(3) AGENCY LIMITATIONS.—Unless exempt from the use of
  164  the state data center pursuant to this section or authorized by
  165  the Legislature, a state agency may not:
  166         (a) Create a new agency computing facility or data center,
  167  or expand the capability to support additional computer
  168  equipment in an existing agency computing facility or data
  169  center; or
  170         (b) Terminate services with the state data center without
  171  giving written notice of intent to terminate services 180 days
  172  before such termination.
  173         (4) DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBILITIES.—The department shall
  174  provide operational management and oversight of the state data
  175  center, which includes:
  176         (a) Implementing industry standards and best practices for
  177  the state data center’s facilities, operations, maintenance,
  178  planning, and management processes.
  179         (b) Developing and implementing cost-recovery mechanisms
  180  that recover the full direct and indirect cost of services
  181  through charges to applicable customer entities. Such cost
  182  recovery mechanisms must comply with applicable state and
  183  federal regulations concerning distribution and use of funds and
  184  must ensure that, for any fiscal year, no service or customer
  185  entity subsidizes another service or customer entity. The
  186  department may recommend other payment mechanisms to the
  187  Executive Office of the Governor, the President of the Senate,
  188  and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Such mechanisms
  189  may be implemented only if specifically authorized by the
  190  Legislature.
  191         (c) Developing and implementing appropriate operating
  192  guidelines and procedures necessary for the state data center to
  193  perform its duties pursuant to subsection (1). The guidelines
  194  and procedures must comply with applicable state and federal
  195  laws, regulations, and policies and conform to generally
  196  accepted governmental accounting and auditing standards. The
  197  guidelines and procedures must include, but need not be limited
  198  to:
  199         1. Implementing a consolidated administrative support
  200  structure responsible for providing financial management,
  201  procurement, transactions involving real or personal property,
  202  human resources, and operational support.
  203         2. Implementing an annual reconciliation process to ensure
  204  that each customer entity is paying for the full direct and
  205  indirect cost of each service as determined by the customer
  206  entity’s use of each service.
  207         3. Providing rebates that may be credited against future
  208  billings to customer entities when revenues exceed costs.
  209         4. Requiring customer entities to validate that sufficient
  210  funds exist before implementation of a customer entity’s request
  211  for a change in the type or level of service provided, if such
  212  change results in a net increase to the customer entity’s cost
  213  for that fiscal year.
  214         5. By November 15 of each year, providing to the Office of
  215  Policy and Budget in the Executive Office of the Governor and to
  216  the chairs of the legislative appropriations committees the
  217  projected costs of providing data center services for the
  218  following fiscal year.
  219         6. Providing a plan for consideration by the Legislative
  220  Budget Commission if the cost of a service is increased for a
  221  reason other than a customer entity’s request made pursuant to
  222  subparagraph 4. Such a plan is required only if the service cost
  223  increase results in a net increase to a customer entity for that
  224  fiscal year.
  225         7. Standardizing and consolidating procurement and
  226  contracting practices.
  227         (d) In collaboration with the Department of Law Enforcement
  228  and the Florida Digital Service, developing and implementing a
  229  process for detecting, reporting, and responding to
  230  cybersecurity incidents, breaches, and threats.
  231         (e) Adopting rules relating to the operation of the state
  232  data center, including, but not limited to, budgeting and
  233  accounting procedures, cost-recovery methodologies, and
  234  operating procedures.
  235         (5) NORTHWEST REGIONAL DATA CENTER CONTRACT.—In order for
  236  the department to carry out its duties and responsibilities
  237  relating to the state data center, the secretary of the
  238  department shall contract by July 1, 2022, with the Northwest
  239  Regional Data Center pursuant to s. 287.057(11). The contract
  240  shall provide that the Northwest Regional Data Center will
  241  manage the operations of the state data center and provide data
  242  center services to state agencies.
  243         (a) The department shall provide contract oversight,
  244  including, but not limited to, reviewing invoices provided by
  245  the Northwest Regional Data Center for services provided to
  246  state agency customers.
  247         (b) The department shall approve or request updates to
  248  invoices within 10 business days after receipt. If the
  249  department does not respond to the Northwest Regional Data
  250  Center, the invoice will be approved by default. The Northwest
  251  Regional Data Center must submit approved invoices directly to
  252  state agency customers.
  253         Section 25. Section 282.0211, Florida Statutes, is created
  254  to read:
  255         282.0211Northwest Regional Data Center.—
  256         (1) For the purpose of providing data center services to
  257  its state agency customers, the Northwest Regional Data Center
  258  is designated as the state data center for all state agencies
  259  and shall:
  260         (a) Operate under a governance structure that represents
  261  its customers proportionally.
  262         (b) Maintain an appropriate cost-allocation methodology
  263  that accurately bills state agency customers based solely on the
  264  actual direct and indirect costs of the services provided to
  265  state agency customers and ensures that, for any fiscal year,
  266  state agency customers are not subsidizing other customers of
  267  the data center. Such cost-allocation methodology must comply
  268  with applicable state and federal regulations concerning the
  269  distribution and use of state and federal funds.
  270         (c) Enter into a service-level agreement with each state
  271  agency customer to provide services as defined and approved by
  272  the governing board of the center. At a minimum, such service
  273  level agreements must:
  274         1. Identify the parties and their roles, duties, and
  275  responsibilities under the agreement;
  276         2. State the duration of the agreement term, which may not
  277  exceed 3 years, and specify the conditions for up to two
  278  optional 1-year renewals of the agreement before execution of a
  279  new agreement;
  280         3. Identify the scope of work;
  281         4. Establish the services to be provided, the business
  282  standards that must be met for each service, the cost of each
  283  service, and the process by which the business standards for
  284  each service are to be objectively measured and reported;
  285         5. Provide a timely billing methodology for recovering the
  286  cost of services provided pursuant to s. 215.422;
  287         6. Provide a procedure for modifying the service-level
  288  agreement to address any changes in projected costs of service;
  289         7. Include a right-to-audit clause to ensure that the
  290  parties to the agreement have access to records for audit
  291  purposes during the term of the service-level agreement;
  292         8. Identify the products or services to be delivered with
  293  sufficient specificity to permit an external financial or
  294  performance audit;
  295         9. Provide that the service-level agreement may be
  296  terminated by either party for cause only after giving the other
  297  party notice in writing of the cause for termination and an
  298  opportunity for the other party to resolve the identified cause
  299  within a reasonable period; and
  300         10. Provide state agency customer entities with access to
  301  applications, servers, network components, and other devices
  302  necessary for entities to perform business activities and
  303  functions and as defined and documented in a service-level
  304  agreement.
  305         (d) In its procurement process, show preference for cloud
  306  computing solutions that minimize or do not require the
  307  purchasing or financing of state data center infrastructure,
  308  that meet the needs of state agency customer entities, that
  309  reduce costs, and that meet or exceed the applicable state and
  310  federal laws, regulations, and standards for cybersecurity.
  311         (e) Assist state agency customer entities in transitioning
  312  from state data center services to other third-party cloud
  313  computing services procured by a customer entity or by the
  314  Northwest Regional Data Center on behalf of the customer entity.
  315         (f) Provide to the Board of Governors the total annual
  316  budget by major expenditure category, including, but not limited
  317  to, salaries, expenses, operating capital outlay, contracted
  318  services, or other personnel services, by July 30 each fiscal
  319  year.
  320         (g) Provide to each state agency customer its projected
  321  annual cost for providing the agreed-upon data center services
  322  by September 1 each fiscal year.
  323         (h) By November 15 of each year, provide to the Office of
  324  Policy and Budget in the Executive Office of the Governor and to
  325  the chairs of the legislative appropriations committees the
  326  projected costs of providing data center services for the
  327  following fiscal year.
  328         (i) Provide a plan for consideration by the Legislative
  329  Budget Commission if the governing body of the center approves
  330  the use of a billing rate schedule after the start of the fiscal
  331  year that increases any state agency customer’s costs for that
  332  fiscal year.
  333         (j) Provide data center services that comply with
  334  applicable state and federal laws, regulations, and policies,
  335  including all applicable security, privacy, and auditing
  336  requirements.
  337         (k) Maintain performance of the data center facilities by
  338  ensuring proper data backup; data backup recovery; disaster
  339  recovery; and appropriate security, power, cooling, fire
  340  suppression, and capacity.
  341         (l)Submit invoices to state agency customers.
  342         (m) As funded in the General Appropriations Act, provide
  343  data center services to state agencies from multiple facilities.
  344         (2) Unless exempt from the requirement to use the state
  345  data center pursuant to s. 282.201(1) or as authorized by the
  346  Legislature, a state agency may not do any of the following:
  347         (a) Terminate services with the Northwest Regional Data
  348  Center without giving written notice of intent to terminate
  349  services 180 days before such termination.
  350         (b) Procure third-party cloud-computing services without
  351  evaluating the cloud-computing services provided by the
  352  Northwest Regional Data Center.
  353         (c) Exceed 30 days from receipt of approved invoices to
  354  remit payment for state data center services provided by the
  355  Northwest Regional Data Center.
  356         (3) The Northwest Regional Data Center’s authority to
  357  provide data center services to its state agency customers may
  358  be terminated if:
  359         (a) The center requests such termination to the Board of
  360  Governors, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the
  361  House of Representatives; or
  362         (b) The center fails to comply with the provisions of this
  363  section.
  364         (4) If such authority is terminated, the center has 1 year
  365  to provide for the transition of its state agency customers to a
  366  qualified alternative cloud-based data center that meets the
  367  enterprise architecture standards established pursuant to this
  368  chapter.
  369         Section 26. Section 1004.649, Florida Statutes, is amended
  370  to read:
  371         1004.649 Northwest Regional Data Center.—There is created
  372  at Florida State University the Northwest Regional Data Center.
  373  The data center shall serve as the state data center as
  374  designated in s. 282.201
  375         (1) For the purpose of providing data center services to
  376  its state agency customers, the Northwest Regional Data Center
  377  is designated as a state data center for all state agencies and
  378  shall:
  379         (a) Operate under a governance structure that represents
  380  its customers proportionally.
  381         (b) Maintain an appropriate cost-allocation methodology
  382  that accurately bills state agency customers based solely on the
  383  actual direct and indirect costs of the services provided to
  384  state agency customers and ensures that, for any fiscal year,
  385  state agency customers are not subsidizing other customers of
  386  the data center. Such cost-allocation methodology must comply
  387  with applicable state and federal regulations concerning the
  388  distribution and use of state and federal funds.
  389         (c) Enter into a service-level agreement with each state
  390  agency customer to provide services as defined and approved by
  391  the governing board of the center. At a minimum, such service
  392  level agreements must:
  393         1. Identify the parties and their roles, duties, and
  394  responsibilities under the agreement;
  395         2. State the duration of the agreement term, which may not
  396  exceed 3 years, and specify the conditions for up to two
  397  optional 1-year renewals of the agreement before execution of a
  398  new agreement;
  399         3. Identify the scope of work;
  400         4. Establish the services to be provided, the business
  401  standards that must be met for each service, the cost of each
  402  service, and the process by which the business standards for
  403  each service are to be objectively measured and reported;
  404         5. Provide a timely billing methodology for recovering the
  405  cost of services provided pursuant to s. 215.422;
  406         6. Provide a procedure for modifying the service-level
  407  agreement to address any changes in projected costs of service;
  408         7. Include a right-to-audit clause to ensure that the
  409  parties to the agreement have access to records for audit
  410  purposes during the term of the service-level agreement;
  411         8. Identify the products or services to be delivered with
  412  sufficient specificity to permit an external financial or
  413  performance audit;
  414         9. Provide that the service-level agreement may be
  415  terminated by either party for cause only after giving the other
  416  party notice in writing of the cause for termination and an
  417  opportunity for the other party to resolve the identified cause
  418  within a reasonable period; and
  419         10. Provide state agency customer entities with access to
  420  applications, servers, network components, and other devices
  421  necessary for entities to perform business activities and
  422  functions and as defined and documented in a service-level
  423  agreement.
  424         (d) In its procurement process, show preference for cloud
  425  computing solutions that minimize or do not require the
  426  purchasing or financing of state data center infrastructure,
  427  that meet the needs of state agency customer entities, that
  428  reduce costs, and that meet or exceed the applicable state and
  429  federal laws, regulations, and standards for cybersecurity.
  430         (e) Assist state agency customer entities in transitioning
  431  from state data center services to other third-party cloud
  432  computing services procured by a customer entity or by the
  433  Northwest Regional Data Center on behalf of the customer entity.
  434         (f) Provide to the Board of Governors the total annual
  435  budget by major expenditure category, including, but not limited
  436  to, salaries, expenses, operating capital outlay, contracted
  437  services, or other personnel services by July 30 each fiscal
  438  year.
  439         (g) Provide to each state agency customer its projected
  440  annual cost for providing the agreed-upon data center services
  441  by September 1 each fiscal year.
  442         (h) Provide a plan for consideration by the Legislative
  443  Budget Commission if the governing body of the center approves
  444  the use of a billing rate schedule after the start of the fiscal
  445  year that increases any state agency customer’s costs for that
  446  fiscal year.
  447         (i) Provide data center services that comply with
  448  applicable state and federal laws, regulations, and policies,
  449  including all applicable security, privacy, and auditing
  450  requirements.
  451         (j) Maintain performance of the data center facilities by
  452  ensuring proper data backup; data backup recovery; disaster
  453  recovery; and appropriate security, power, cooling, fire
  454  suppression, and capacity.
  455         (k) Prepare and submit state agency customer invoices to
  456  the Department of Management Services for approval. Upon
  457  approval or by default pursuant to s. 282.201(5), submit
  458  invoices to state agency customers.
  459         (l) As funded in the General Appropriations Act, provide
  460  data center services to state agencies from multiple facilities.
  461         (2) Unless exempt from the requirement to use the state
  462  data center pursuant to s. 282.201(2) or as authorized by the
  463  Legislature, a state agency may not do any of the following:
  464         (a) Terminate services with the Northwest Regional Data
  465  Center without giving written notice of intent to terminate
  466  services 180 days before such termination.
  467         (b) Procure third-party cloud-computing services without
  468  evaluating the cloud-computing services provided by the
  469  Northwest Regional Data Center.
  470         (c) Exceed 30 days from receipt of approved invoices to
  471  remit payment for state data center services provided by the
  472  Northwest Regional Data Center.
  473         (3) The Northwest Regional Data Center’s authority to
  474  provide data center services to its state agency customers may
  475  be terminated if:
  476         (a) The center requests such termination to the Board of
  477  Governors, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the
  478  House of Representatives; or
  479         (b) The center fails to comply with the provisions of this
  480  section.
  481         (4) If such authority is terminated, the center has 1 year
  482  to provide for the transition of its state agency customers to a
  483  qualified alternative cloud-based data center that meets the
  484  enterprise architecture standards established by the Florida
  485  Digital Service.
  486  
  487  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
  488  And the title is amended as follows:
  489         Delete lines 275 - 292
  490  and insert:
  491         duties; amending s. 282.201, F.S.; establishing the
  492         state data center within the Northwest Regional Data
  493         Center; requiring the Northwest Regional Data Center
  494         to meet or exceed specified information technology
  495         standards; revising requirements of the state data
  496         center; abrogating the scheduled repeal of the
  497         Division of Emergency Management’s exemption from
  498         using the state data center; deleting Department of
  499         Management Services’ responsibilities related to the
  500         state data center; deleting provisions relating to
  501         contracting with the Northwest Regional Data Center;
  502         creating s. 282.0211, F.S.; designating the Northwest
  503         Regional Data Center as a state data center for all
  504         state agencies; requiring the data center to engage in
  505         specified actions; prohibiting state agencies from
  506         terminating services with the data center without
  507         giving written notice within a specified timeframe,
  508         procuring third-party cloud-computing services without
  509         evaluating the data center’s cloud-computing services,
  510         and exceeding a specified timeframe to remit payments
  511         for data center services provided by the data center;
  512         specifying circumstances under which the data center’s
  513         designation may be terminated; providing that the data
  514         center has a specified timeframe to provide for the
  515         transition of state agency customers to a qualified
  516         alternative cloud-based data center that meets
  517         specified standards; amending s. 1004.649, F.S.;
  518         creating the Northwest Regional Data Center at Florida
  519         State University; conforming provisions to changes
  520         made by the act;