2017-2018 Bill 3928: State Resident Verification - South Carolina Legislature Online

1 South Carolina General Assembly 2 122nd Session, 2017-2018 3 4 H. 3928 5 6 STATUS INFORMATION 7 8 General Bill 9 Sponsors: Reps. Loftis, G.R. Smith, Burns, Crawford, Lucas, Bradley, Clemmons, Delleney, Henderson, 10 Hixon, Pope, Simrill, G.M. Smith, Stavrinakis and Toole 11 Document Path: l:\council\bills\bbm\9639dg17.docx 12 13 Introduced in the House on March 7, 2017 14 Currently residing in the House Committee on Ways and Means 15 16 Summary: State resident verification 17 18 19 HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 20 21 Date Body Action Description with journal page number 22 3/7/2017 House Introduced and read first time ( House Journalpage 78) 23 3/7/2017 House Referred to Committee on Ways and Means ( House Journalpage 78) 24 25 View the latest legislative information at the website 26 27 28 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL 29 30 3/7/2017 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A BILL 10 11 TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 12 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 111437 SO AS TO REQUIRE 13 ALL STATE AGENCIES TO USE A SINGLE THIRD PARTY 14 ORIGINAL SOURCE COMPILER AND PUBLISHER OF 15 UNENCUMBERED ADDRESS DATA FOR PURPOSES OF 16 VALIDATING AND VERIFYING STATE RESIDENTS, 17 HOUSEHOLDS, AND BUSINESSES, AND TO DIRECT THE 18 CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER OF THE STATE FISCAL 19 ACCOUNTABILITY AUTHORITY, WITH THE INPUT OF 20 AFFECTED AGENCIES, TO PROCURE SUCH A COMPILER 21 AND PUBLISHER IN THE MANNER REQUIRED BY THE 22 SOUTH CAROLINA CONSOLIDATED PROCUREMENT 23 CODE. 24 25 Whereas, the State of South Carolina currently subscribes to 26 multiple data and data processing services and vendors; and 27 28 Whereas, this State would benefit financially and administratively 29 by all state agencies using a single provider of business, 30 residential, and household data and data services; and 31 32 Whereas, this State would benefit over time by working with a 33 publisher and original source compiler and processor of such data 34 and data services; and 35 36 Whereas, this State, in procuring such a provider, should utilize a 37 system where each record is unencumbered and georeferenced in 38 order to track and update changes to records without overexposing 39 sensitive data such as social security numbers or financially related 40 information; and 41

[3928] 2 1 Whereas, it is appropriate for the State Fiscal Accountability 2 Authority, through its chief information officer, to procure the 3 appropriate vendor and implement the single source compiler 4 program. Now, therefore, 5 6 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South 7 Carolina: 8 9 SECTION 1. Article 1, Chapter 11, Title 1 of the 1976 Code is 10 amended by adding: 11 12 “Section 111437. (A) All state agencies after June 30, 2018, 13 shall use a single third party original source compiler and publisher 14 of unencumbered addressbased data for purposes of validating and 15 verifying residents, households, and businesses within the State. 16 The raw data must be updated monthly inclusive of National 17 Change of Address Postal Processing, georeferenced, and made 18 available to all state agencies. The data must be able to be 19 delivered in a: 20 (1) nationwide webbased data access format that has a quick 21 search capability, remote access capability, and mapping 22 functionality; and 23 (2) raw data format for the State of South Carolina business 24 and residential information. 25 (B) The State Fiscal Accountability Authority, through its chief 26 information officer, with the input of affected agencies, and 27 pursuant to the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code, 28 shall procure an appropriate vendor to provide the necessary data 29 compilation and publication.” 30 31 SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the 32 Governor. 33 XX 34

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