Authority: Title 2.2, Chapter 20.1, Code of Virginia.
A. Out of this appropriation, $374,177,047 the first year and $369,903,708 the second year for Information Technology Development and Operations is sum sufficient and amounts shown are estimates from an internal service fund which shall be paid solely from revenues derived from charges for services.
B. Political subdivisions and local school divisions are hereby authorized to purchase information technology goods and services of every description from the Virginia Information Technologies Agency and its vendors, provided that such purchases are not prohibited by the terms and conditions of the contracts for such goods and services.
C. 1. The Secretary of Finance and Secretary of Administration shall approve the draw downs from the agency's line of credit authorized in § 3-2.03 of this act prior to the expenditure of funds for costs associated with replacing or implementing information technology services currently provided by the multi-supplier vendor model.
2. The Director, Department of Planning and Budget, is authorized to administratively adjust the appropriation in this item and Item 81 of this act for approved transition costs associated with replacing or implementing information technology services currently provided by the multi-supplier vendor model.
D. The Virginia Information Technologies Agency shall continue to identify the charge-back structure to allocate costs based on agencies' consumption of data storage. The funds from this charge-back structure shall be used to support the Chief Data Officer's efforts to create a Commonwealth data inventory, and enterprise data dictionary and catalog.
E. The Virginia Information Technologies Agency shall provide a network infrastructure report to the House Appropriations Committee, Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee, and Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission by November 1 of each year. The report shall indicate whether the Commonwealth's network infrastructure is adequate to meet the needs of state agencies, and if not, identify any needed upgrades. For each network infrastructure upgrade identified, the report shall specify the estimated cost and whether the upgrade is to the portion of the network maintained by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency or another state agency.
F.1. The Secretary of Administration, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA), and the Office of Data Governance and Analytics (ODGA), shall conduct a needs assessment of the cost and options to implement a data analytics platform that collects, analyzes, interprets, and shares opioid related data from relevant agencies across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The needs assessment shall include a review of existing state software platforms, data sets, and functional requirements, as well as utility among state agencies and local governments and other interested stakeholders. The following agencies shall support the needs assessment effort: Department of Health, Opioid Abatement Authority (OAA), Department of Criminal Justice Services, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Department of Social Services, Department of Corrections, Department of Health Professions, Department of Medical Assistance Services, and any other state agency that may house opioid related data or programs. The VITA and ODGA shall solicit stakeholder involvement in the needs assessment from organizations that represent local governments, addiction service providers and others such as, the Virginia Association of Counties, the Virginia Municipal League, the Virginia Association of Community Services Boards, the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences, and the Substance Abuse and Addiction Recovery Alliance, among others.
2. If the needs assessment concludes that such a platform is necessary and can be implemented in a cost effective manner, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA), in conjunction with the Office of Data Governance and Analytics (ODGA), is authorized to pursue a grant from the Opioid Abatement Authority to procure the platform. The platform shall provide the comprehensive capture of substance use disorder and opioid public data across the Commonwealth, utilizing common methodologies, metrics, and indicators to implement a statewide substance use disorder abatement enterprise data platform.