Rep. Norm Thurston — Voting Record

Bill

Number

S.B. 283 First Substitute (2015GS)

Sponsor

Sen. Stephenson, H.

Final action

Senate/ filed 3/12/2015

Outcome

Failed / filed without passage

Summary

What it does

• This bill:
• requires the Utah Education and Telehealth Network to select a technology provider to provide technology and support to Utah Futures;
• eliminates an evaluation panel that assesses whether the Department of Workforce Services, the State Board of Regents, and the State Board of Education should outsource the Utah Futures website to a private provider or build the Utah Futures website in-house;
• requires an independent evaluation; and
• makes technical changes.

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Bill text

POST-SECONDARY CAREER AND EDUCATIONAL CHOICE
AMENDMENTS
GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Howard A. Stephenson
House Sponsor: 
____________
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill requires the Utah Education and Telehealth Network Board to select a
technology provider to provide technology and support to Utah Futures.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
▸ requires the Utah Education and Telehealth Network to select a technology provider
to provide technology and support to Utah Futures;
▸ eliminates an evaluation panel that assesses whether the Department of Workforce
Services, the State Board of Regents, and the State Board of Education should
outsource the Utah Futures website to a private provider or build the Utah Futures
website in-house;
▸ requires an independent evaluation; and
▸ makes technical changes.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
This bill appropriates in fiscal year 2016:
▸ to the Utah Education and Telehealth Network - Utah Education and Telehealth
Network as an ongoing appropriation:
• from the Education Fund, $2,400,000.
▸ to the Utah Education and Telehealth Network - Utah Education and Telehealth
Network as a one-time appropriation:
• from the Education Fund, $50,000.
Other Special Clauses:
This bill provides a special effective date.
Utah Code Sections Affected:
AMENDS:
63I-2-253
, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2014, Chapters 102, 189, 372, and 393
RENUMBERS AND AMENDS:
53B-17-108
, (Renumbered from 53A-1-410, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2014,
Chapter 372)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 
53B-17-108
, which is renumbered from Section 53A-1-410 is
renumbered and amended to read:
[
53A-1-410
].
 53B-17-108.
Utah Futures.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Education provider" means:
(i) a Utah institution of higher education as defined in Section 
53B-2-101
; or
(ii) a Utah provider of postsecondary education.
(b) "Student user" means:
(i) a Utah student in kindergarten through grade 12;
(ii) a Utah post secondary education student;
(iii) a parent or guardian of a Utah public education student; or
(iv) a Utah potential post secondary education student.
(c) "Utah Futures" means a career planning program developed and administered by
the Department of Workforce Services, the State Board of Regents, and the State Board of
Education.
(d) "Utah Futures Steering Committee" means a committee of members designated by
the governor to administer and manage Utah Futures in collaboration with the Department of
Workforce Services, the State Board of Regents, and the State Board of Education.
[
(2) The Utah Futures Steering Committee shall ensure, as funding allows and is
feasible, that Utah Futures will:
]
(2) On or before October 1, 2015, the board, after consulting with the Board of
Business and Economic Development created in Section 
63M-1-301
 and the Utah Futures
Steering Committee, shall select a technology provider, through a request for proposals
process, to provide technology and support for Utah Futures.
(3) The board shall ensure that the technology and support provided by the provider
selected under Subsection (2) shall allow:
(a) [
allow
] a student user to:
(i) access the student user's full academic record;
(ii) electronically allow the student user to give access to the student user's academic
record and related information to an education provider as allowed by law;
(iii) access information about different career opportunities and understand the related
educational requirements to enter that career;
(iv) access information about education providers;
(v) access up to date information about entrance requirements to education providers;
(vi) apply for entrance to multiple schools without having to fully replicate the
application process;
(vii) apply for loans, scholarships, or grants from multiple education providers in one
location without having to fully replicate the application process for multiple education
providers; and
(viii) research open jobs from different companies within the user's career interest and
apply for those jobs without having to leave the website to do so;
(b) [
allow
] all users to:
(i) access information about different career opportunities and understand the related
educational requirements to enter that career;
(ii) access information about education providers;
(iii) access up-to-date information about entrance requirements to education providers;
(iv) apply for entrance to multiple schools without having to fully replicate the
application process;
(v) apply for loans, scholarships, or grants from multiple education providers in one
location without having to fully replicate the application process for multiple education
providers; and
(vi) research open jobs from different companies within the user's career interest and
apply for those jobs without having to leave the website to do so;
(c) [
allow
] an education provider to:
(i) research and find student users who are interested in various educational outcomes;
(ii) promote the education provider's programs and schools to student users; and
(iii) connect with student users within the Utah Futures website;
(d) [
allow
] a Utah business to:
(i) research and find student users who are pursuing educational outcomes that are
consistent with jobs the Utah business is trying to fill now or in the future; and
(ii) market jobs and communicate with student users through the Utah Futures website
as allowed by law;
(e) [
allow
] the Department of Workforce Services to analyze and report on student user
interests, education paths, and behaviors within the education system so as to predictively
determine appropriate career and educational outcomes and results; and
(f) [
allow
] all users of the Utah Futures' system to communicate and interact through
social networking tools within the Utah Futures website as allowed by law.
[
(3) On or before October 1, 2014, the State Board of Education
, after consulting with
the Board of Business and Economic Development created in Section 
63M-1-301
, may select a
technology provider, through a request for proposals process, to provide technology and
support for Utah Futures.
]
(4) In evaluating proposals under Subsection [
(3)
] 
(2)
 in consultation with the Board of
Business and Economic Development[
, the State Board of Education
] 
and the Utah Futures
Steering Committee, the board
 shall ensure that the technology provided by a proposer:
(a) allows Utah Futures to license the selected service oriented architecture
technologies;
(b) allows Utah Futures to protect all user data within the system by leveraging role
architecture;
(c) allows Utah Futures to update the user interface, APIs, and web services software
layers as needed;
(d) provides the ability for a student user to have a secure profile and login to access
and to store personal information related to the services listed in Subsection (2) via the
Internet;
(e) protects all user data within Utah Futures;
(f) allows the [
State Board of Education
] 
board
 to license the technology of the
selected technology provider; and
(g) provides technology able to support application programming interfaces to integrate
technology of other third party providers, which may include cloud-based technology.
[
(5) (a) On or before August 1, 2014, the evaluation panel described in Subsection
(5)(b), using the criteria described in Subsection (5)(c), shall evaluate Utah Futures and
determine whether any or all components of Utah Futures, as described in this section, should
be outsourced to a private provider or built in-house by the participating state agencies.
]
[
(b) The evaluation panel described in Subsection (5)(a) shall consist of the following
members, appointed by the governor after consulting with the State Board of Education:
]
[
(i) five members who represent business, including:
]
[
(A) one member who has extensive knowledge and experience in information
technology; and
]
[
(B) one member who has extensive knowledge and experience in human resources;
]
[
(ii) one member who is a user of the information provided by Utah Futures;
]
[
(iii) one member who is a parent of a student who uses Utah Futures;
]
[
(iv) one member who:
]
[
(A) is an educator as defined in Section 
53A-6-103
; and
]
[
(B) teaches students who use Utah Futures; and
]
[
(v) one member who is a high school counselor licensed under Title 53A, Chapter 6,
Educator Licensing and Professional Practices Act.
]
[
(c) The evaluation panel described in Subsections (5)(a) and (b) shall consider at least
the following criteria to make the determination described in Subsection (5)(a):
]
[
(i) the complete functional capabilities of a private technology provider versus an
in-house version;
]
[
(ii) the cost of purchasing privately developed technology versus continuing to
develop or build an in-house version;
]
[
(iii) the data and security capabilities of a private technology provider versus an
in-house version;
]
[
(iv) the time frames to implementation; and
]
[
(v) the best practices and examples of other states who have implemented a tool
similar to Utah Futures.
]
[
(d) On or before September 30, 2014, the evaluation panel shall report the
determination to:
]
[
(i) the State Board of Education;
]
[
(ii) the Executive Appropriations Committee; and
]
[
(iii) the Education Interim Committee.
]
 (5) (a) The board shall contract with an independent evaluator to evaluate Utah Futures
on:
 (i) the extent to which Utah Futures provides the outcomes described in Subsection (3);
and
 (ii) the effectiveness of the technology provider selected under Subsection (2) in
helping Utah Futures reach the outcomes described in Subsection (3).
 (b) The board shall present the results of the evaluation described in Subsection (5)(a)
to the Education Interim Committee on or before November 1, 2016.
Section 2. Section 
63I-2-253
 is amended to read:
63I-2-253.
 Repeal dates -- Titles 53, 53A, and 53B.
(1) Section 
53A-1-402.7
 is repealed July 1, 2014.
(2) Section 
53A-1-403.5
 is repealed July 1, 2017.
[
(3) Subsection 
53A-1-410
(5) is repealed July 1, 2015.
]
[
(4)
] 
(3)
 Section 
53A-1-411
 is repealed July 1, 2016.
[
(5)
] 
(4)
 Section 
53A-1a-513.5
 is repealed July 1, 2017.
[
(6)
] 
(5)
 Title 53A, Chapter 1a, Part 10, UPSTART, is repealed July 1, 2019.
[
(7)
] 
(6)
 Title 53A, Chapter 8a, Part 8, Peer Assistance and Review Pilot Program, is
repealed July 1, 2017.
[
(8)
] 
(7)
 Section 
53A-17a-169
 is repealed July 1, 2017.
Section 3. 
Appropriation.
Under the terms and conditions of Title 63J, Chapter 1, Budgetary Procedures Act, for
the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016, the following sums of money
are appropriated from resources not otherwise appropriated, or reduced from amounts
previously appropriated, out of the funds or accounts indicated. These sums of money are in
addition to any amounts previously appropriated for fiscal year 2016.
To Utah Education and Telehealth Network - Utah Education and Telehealth Network
From Education Fund
$2,400,000
From Education Fund, One-time
$50,000
Schedule of Programs:
Utah Futures $2,450,000
The Legislature intends that:
(1) the Utah Education and Telehealth Network shall:
(a) use $2,400,000 of the appropriation for Utah Futures to contract with a technology
provider as described in Subsection 
53A-1-410
(2); and
(b) use $50,000 of the appropriation for Utah Futures to conduct the independent
evaluation described in Subsection 
53A-1-410
(5); and
(2) under Section 
63J-1-603
, the appropriation provided under this section not lapse at
the close of fiscal year 2016, and that the use of any nonlapsing funds is limited to the purposes
described in Section 
53A-1-410
.
Section 4. 
Effective date.
(1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), this bill takes effect on May 12, 2015.
(2) Uncodified Section 3, Appropriation, takes effect on July 1, 2015.
Legislative Review Note
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