282.20 Technology Resource Center.--
(1)(a) The 1Division of Information Services of the Department of Management Services shall operate and manage the Technology Resource Center.
(b) For the purposes of this section, the term:
1. "Department" means the Department of Management Services.
2. "Division" means the 1Division of Information Services of the Department of Management Services.
3. "Information-system utility" means a full-service information-processing facility offering hardware, software, operations, integration, networking, and consulting services.
4. "Customer" means a state agency or other entity which is authorized to utilize the SUNCOM Network pursuant to this part.
(2) The 1division and the Technology Resource Center shall:
(a) Serve the department and other customers as an information-system utility.
2(b) Cooperate with the Information Resource Commission and with other customers to offer, develop, and support a wide range of services and applications needed by users of the Technology Resource Center.
(c) Cooperate with the Florida Legal Resource Center of the Department of Legal Affairs and other state agencies to develop and provide access to repositories of legal information throughout the state.
(d) Cooperate with the 1Division of Communications of the department to facilitate interdepartmental networking and integration of network services for its customers.
(e) Assist customers in testing and evaluating new and emerging technologies that could be used to meet the needs of the state.
(3) The 1division may contract with customers to provide any combination of services necessary for agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and to serve their users.
(4) Acceptance of any new customer other than a state agency which is expected to pay during the initial 12 months of use more than 5 percent of the previous year's revenues of the Technology Resource Center shall be contingent upon approval of the Office of Planning and Budgeting in a manner similar to the budget amendment process in s. 216.181.
(5) The Technology Resource Center may plan, design, establish pilot projects for, and conduct experiments with information technology resources, and may implement enhancements in services when such implementation is cost-effective. Funding for experiments and pilot projects shall be derived from service revenues and may not exceed 5 percent of the service revenues for the Technology Resource Center for any fiscal year. Any experiment, pilot project, plan, or design must be approved by the data processing policy board of the center.
(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.272, the Technology Resource Center may spend the funds in the reserve account of its working capital trust fund for enhancements to center operations or for information technology resources. Any expenditure of reserve account funds must be approved by the data processing policy board of the center. Any funds remaining in the reserve account at the end of the fiscal year may be carried forward and spent as approved by the policy board.
History.--s. 3, ch. 94-226; s. 10, ch. 94-340; s. 12, ch. 97-241; s. 13, ch. 97-286; s. 48, ch. 99-13.
1Note.--Deleted in the reorganization of the Department of Management Services by s. 3, ch. 97-296.
2Note.--As amended by s. 12, ch. 97-241. This version is published as the last expression of legislative will (see Journal of the House of Representatives 1997, pp. 1201 and 1491). Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) was also amended by s. 13, ch. 97-286, and that version reads:
(b) Offer, develop, and support a wide range of services and applications needed by users of the Technology Resource Center.
