Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 480
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/12/2026           .                                
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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 2342 - 2382
    4  and insert:
    5         (d) For purposes of chapter 273, be the custodian of
    6  resources and equipment located in and operated, supported, and
    7  managed by the state data center.
    8         (e) Assume administrative access rights to resources and
    9  equipment, including servers, network components, and other
   10  devices, consolidated into the state data center.
   11         1. Upon consolidation, a state agency shall relinquish
   12  administrative rights to consolidated resources and equipment.
   13  State agencies required to comply with federal and state
   14  criminal justice information security rules and policies shall
   15  retain administrative access rights sufficient to comply with
   16  the management control provisions of those rules and policies;
   17  however, the state data center shall have the appropriate type
   18  or level of rights to allow the center to comply with its duties
   19  pursuant to this section. The Department of Law Enforcement
   20  shall serve as the arbiter of disputes pertaining to the
   21  appropriate type and level of administrative access rights
   22  pertaining to the provision of management control in accordance
   23  with the federal criminal justice information guidelines.
   24         2. The state data center shall provide customer entities
   25  with access to applications, servers, network components, and
   26  other devices necessary for entities to perform business
   27  activities and functions, and as defined and documented in a
   28  service-level agreement.
   29         (f) In its procurement process, show preference for cloud
   30  computing solutions that minimize or do not require the
   31  purchasing or financing of state data center infrastructure,
   32  that meet the needs of state agency customer entities, that
   33  reduce costs, and that meet or exceed the applicable state and
   34  federal laws, regulations, and standards for cybersecurity.
   35         (g) Assist state agency customer entities in transitioning
   36  from state data center services to other third-party cloud
   37  computing services procured by a customer entity or by the
   38  Northwest Regional Data Center on behalf of the customer entity.
   39         (h) Provide to the Board of Governors the total annual
   40  budget by major expenditure category, including, but not limited
   41  to, salaries, expenses, operating capital outlay, contracted
   42  services, or other personnel services, by July 30 each fiscal
   43  year.
   44         (i) Provide to each state agency customer its projected
   45  annual cost for providing the agreed-upon data center services
   46  by September 1 each fiscal year.
   47         (j) By November 15 of each year, provide to the Office of
   48  Policy and Budget in the Executive Office of the Governor and to
   49  the chairs of the legislative appropriations committees the
   50  projected costs of providing data center services for the
   51  following fiscal year for each state agency customer. The
   52  projections must include prior-year comparisons, identification
   53  of new services, and documentation of changes to billing
   54  methodologies or service cost allocation.
   55         (k) Provide a plan for consideration by the Legislative
   56  Budget Commission if the governing body of the center approves
   57  the use of a billing rate schedule after the start of the fiscal
   58  year which increases any state agency customer’s costs for that
   59  fiscal year.
   60         (l) Provide data center services that comply with
   61  applicable state and federal laws, regulations, and policies,
   62  including all applicable security, privacy, and auditing
   63  requirements.
   64         (m) Maintain performance of the data center facilities by
   65  ensuring proper data backup; data backup recovery; disaster
   66  recovery; and appropriate security, power, cooling, fire
   67  suppression, and capacity.
   68         (n) Submit invoices to state agency customers.
   69         (o) As funded in the General Appropriations Act, provide
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   72  And the title is amended as follows:
   73         Delete line 318
   74  and insert:
   75         specified actions; requiring the Department of Law
   76         Enforcement to serve as the arbiter of certain
   77         disputes in accordance with the federal criminal
   78         justice information guidelines; prohibiting state
   79         agencies from