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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2019

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF

ADMINISTRATION

     Introduced By: Senators DiPalma, Coyne, Seveney, and Pearson

     Date Introduced: January 24, 2019

     Referred To: Senate Finance

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Chapter 42-11 of the General Laws entitled "Department of

Administration" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:

     42-11-2.10. Verification of hours worked on computers.

     (a) This section shall apply only to a contract by or on behalf of the department of

transportation, the department of health, the department of human services, the department of

administration, and the department of commerce, for professional or technical services in excess

of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).

     (b) A contract subject to this section must require a contractor to use software to verify

that hours billed for work under the contract that are performed on a computer are legitimate. The

contract must specify that the agency will not pay for hours worked on a computer unless those

hours are verifiable by the software or by data collected by the software. The software must do

the following:

     (1) Permit the agency or an auditor of the agency to have real-time or retroactive access

to data collected or provided by the software;

     (2) Automatically take a screenshot of state-funded activity at least once every three (3)

minutes, and make the screenshots available to the agency or an auditor of the agency in real

time;

     (3) Provide to the agency or an auditor of the agency automated real-time cost status of

each task;

     (4) Provide to the agency professional biographical information that is not private or

confidential on individuals performing state-funded work;

     (5) Must not capture any data that is private or confidential on individuals; and

     (6) Permit the agency to provide immediate feedback to the contractor on work in

progress.

     (c) The contractor must store, or contract with another to store, data collected by the

software for a period of seven (7) years after the agency has remitted payment to the contractor

for the work. Data collected by the software is government data. The contractor must retrieve data

on request of the agency, in the format requested by the agency, at any time during the seven (7)

years as needed to comply with requests for data at no charge to the agency.

     (d) The contractor must not charge the agency or an auditor of the agency for access to or

use of the work verification software, or for access to or retrievals of data collected by the

software.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage, and apply to contracts for which

requests for bids or proposals are issued on or after July 1, 2019.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF

ADMINISTRATION

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     This act would require verification of hours worked on computers by contractors for

professional or technical services rendered to the departments of transportation, health, human

services, administration and commerce in contracts exceeding one hundred thousand dollars

($100,000).

     This act would take effect upon passage and apply to contracts for which requests for

bids or proposals are issued on or after July 1, 2019.

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