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OLR Bill Analysis
sHB 5574
AN ACT REQUIRING THE REPORTING OF THE STATUS OF THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CREATES
PROJECT REPORT CONCERNING DIGITIZATION AND OTHER
UPGRADES AND REPORTS CONCERNING OVERTIME AND
FINGERPRINTING.
SUMMARY
This bill creates several reporting requirements related to the state’s
digitization efforts, employee overtime, and fingerprinting for criminal
history checks, as discussed in the CREATES project’s 2021 report. In
general, the state commissioned the CREATES project to evaluate
workforce efficiency and organizational design and to (1) recommend
how to best mitigate the risk to service continuity caused by anticipated
state employee retirements in 2022 and (2) identify efficiency
opportunities that would reduce state spending.
The bill requires the Office of Policy and Management (OPM)
secretary, by February 1, 2026, to give the Government Oversight
Committee a report on state agencies’ efforts to implement the
CREATES report’s recommendations on digitization. The OPM report
must at least include the status of hiring staff needed to implement the
recommendations, capital funding, implementation, and any realized
savings for the following initiatives as of December 31, 2025:
1. the Department of Revenue Service’s data-driven tax compliance
program;
2. OPM’s state-wide grants program and portal;
3. the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities
streamlining affirmative action reporting;
4. the Office of the Treasurer, Department of Administrative
Services (DAS), and OPM creating a common payment platform; 2025HB-05574-R000501-BA.DOCX
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5. DAS creating a state-wide digital service center;
6. the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
implementing an electronic health record system; and
7. the Department of Labor’s unemployment insurance
modernization upgrades.
The bill also requires the OPM secretary, starting by February 1, 2026,
to annually give the Government Oversight Committee a report that at
least includes a summary of the overtime granted by each state agency
and the management tools they used to try to curtail it.
Lastly, the bill requires the commissioner of emergency services and
public protection, by January 15, 2026, to give the Public Safety and
Government Oversight committees a report with data on State Police
fingerprinting for statutorily required criminal history records checks.
The report must cover the period from July 1, 2025, through December
31, 2025, and include the number of people fingerprinted, why they
were fingerprinted, and how long it took to grant each request after
receiving it.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
COMMITTEE ACTION
Government Oversight Committee
Joint Favorable Substitute
Yea 12 Nay 0 (03/18/2025)