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Senators reintroduce bill funding state digital services

May 21, 2021

A pair of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced an updated version of legislation that would fund digital service and government modernization programs for state and local governments.

The State and Local Digital Services Act, sponsored by Democratic Sens. Patty Murray of Washington and Ron Wyden of Oregon, would create a $100 million fund to support “tech strike teams” in state and local agencies, modeled after the U.S. Digital Service and 18F, the federal government’s modernization and product-development agencies. It would also loosen regulations to make it easier for those agencies to work more closely with state and local governments.

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