Sec. 6. Technology upgrades
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There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2025, in addition to amounts otherwise available, to remain available until expended, for information technology upgrades to the E-Snaps system used to support the program application and awards process under subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq. ). In the development process of upgrading the E-Snaps system described in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— focus on the needs of users of the E-Snaps system, meaning grant recipients and other relevant stakeholders, and take into consideration, to the extent practicable— the guidelines outlined in the U.S.
Web Design Standards maintained by the General Services Administration and the Digital Services Playbook and TechFAR Handbook for Procuring Digital Services Using Agile Processes; and the relevant successor documents or recommendations of such guidelines; use modern, relevant privacy- and security-enhancing technology; and plan for the ongoing operations and maintenance of the system and product to ensure its ongoing capability. Subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, shall not apply to any aspect of the development process described in paragraph (2).
Section 7(f) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act ( 42 U.S.C. 3535(f) ) is amended— by striking The Secretary and inserting the following: The Secretary ; and by adding at the end the following: The authorized services of the working capital fund established under paragraph
(1)(in this paragraph referred to as the Fund ) shall include the activities described in this paragraph for information technology, which shall be managed by the Chief Information Officer of the Department under the overall Fund management of the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. The Fund shall be used for recurring and nonrecurring expenses relating to information technology needs of the Department, including services, products, upgrades, modernization, and maintenance needs and projects, for the purposes of meaningfully improving digital service and program delivery and customer experience. The Fund shall include unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds appropriated in fiscal year 2025 or any succeeding fiscal year from the general fund of the Treasury to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which may be transferred, not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which such funds are available for the purposes for which they were appropriated, into the Fund for use under this paragraph. Of the amounts made available for salaries and expenses in a fiscal year, excluding amounts made available under the heading Office of Inspector General , a total of up to $10,000,000 may be transferred to the Fund for use under this paragraph. Amounts transferred to or deposited in the Fund under this subparagraph shall be available until expended, in addition to such other funds as may be available for the activities described in subparagraph (B), subject to approval by the Office of Management and Budget. .
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