Rep. Michelle Mussman

Filed: 2/27/2019

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2127

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2127 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 1. Purpose. The General Assembly recognizes that
5an increasing amount of government information technology
6contracts require the use of computers, a virtual office, or
7online activity. The General Assembly further recognizes the
8difficulty in verifying hours worked on computers for
9government contracts. Therefore, the General Assembly intends
10to establish a secure and transparent process to verify hours
11worked on computers for government contracts to prevent abuse
12and over-billing.
 
13    Section 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended by
14adding Section 35-45 as follows:
 
15    (30 ILCS 500/35-45 new)

 

 

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1    Sec. 35-45. Automatic work verification software.
2    (a) An information technology contract with a State agency
3for more than $500,000 that includes professional or technical
4services to be performed using a computer and paid by the hour
5shall require the contractor to use software that verifies
6hours billed for the work performed on the computer under that
7contract. The provisions of this subsection (a) shall not apply
8to any hours billed that are not performed on the computer.
9This Section shall not apply to the following entities:
10        (1) State employees;
11        (2) State agencies contracting with State agencies;
12        (3) any individual who works for a contractor that
13    works on a State-owned device; and
14        (4) law enforcement agencies.
15    (b) An information technology contract subject to this
16Section shall require a contractor to use software to verify
17that hours billed for work under the contract that are
18performed on a computer are legitimate. The contract must
19specify that the agency will not pay for hours worked on a
20computer unless those hours are verifiable by the software or
21by data collected by the software. The software must do the
22following:
23        (1) permit the agency or an auditor of the agency to
24    have real-time access to data collected or provided by the
25    software, and at any time after the data is generated as
26    required by the agency, during the term of the contract;

 

 

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1        (2) automatically gather verification data of
2    State-funded activity by tracking total keystroke and
3    mouse event frequency, but shall not record actual
4    keystrokes or mouse events, and taking a screenshot at
5    least once every 3 minutes;
6        (3) provide to the agency or an auditor of the agency
7    automated real-time cost status of each task;
8        (4) protect all data that is private or confidential,
9    consistent with federal and State law; and
10        (5) permit the agency to provide immediate feedback to
11    the contractor on work in progress.
12    (c) The data collected by the software shall be considered
13accounting records belonging to the contractor. The contractor
14must store, or contract with another to store, the data
15collected by the software per State law or for a period of no
16more than 7 years, and provide access to the contracting agency
17or State auditors upon request. The contractor may not sell or
18use the data generated by the software for any other purposes
19than to manage and verify hours worked on a computer and billed
20to the State.
21    (d) The contractor must not charge the agency or an auditor
22of the agency for access to or use of the work verification
23software, or for access to or retrievals of data collected by
24the software.
25    (e) Software used under this Section must be procured by
26the contractor from an independent entity. The independent

 

 

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1entity shall not have access to any screenshots generated by
2the software used to comply with this Section.
3    (f) Any agency subject to the provisions of this Section
4shall adopt rules to implement this Section no later than 6
5months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
6101st General Assembly.".