WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2023 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 586

By Senator Swope

[Introduced February 08, 2023; referred
to the Committee on Government Organization]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §12-6D-8, relating to review of spending unit software purchases to ensure such functionality does not exist within the state's current enterprise resource planning software.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 6d. west virginia enterprise resource planning board.

§12-6D-8. Review of spending unit software purchases.

(a) Prior to submission or publication of any solicitation to purchase of significant software or related consulting services, the spending unit must submit a brief summary of its software requirements to the Enterprise Resource Planning Board who shall, in consultation with the Office of Technology, review such requirements to determine whether the software functionality requested currently exists in the state's enterprise resource planning applications, or whether such functionality is available in some other manner to spending units through existing statewide contracts or software currently accessible to the state. The Enterprise Resource Planning Board shall provide a written determination whether to approve or disapprove the procurement based upon existing functionality available to the state.

(b) For the purposes of this section, a significant software purchase is any purchase of greater than $250,000, including both software and related services.

(c) For the purposes of this section, the term "spending unit" shall have the same meaning as provided in §12-1-2 of this code.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require spending units to submit software procurement requests to the Enterprise Resource Planning Board for a determination, done in conjunction with the Office of Technology, whether such functionality is already available to the state.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.