As the 2025 legislative session starts to wind down, here are five of the largest IT appropriations project requests (APR) from members of the Florida House of Representatives.
The most costly APR on the list is a $26.1 million request from Rep. Gallop Franklin II, D-8, to establish a “Florida Fraud Prevention and Detection Center.” The project aims to provide “state agencies with an enterprisewide solution to enhance current anti-fraud activities by developing a system that aggregates data for review and analysis.”
If funded, state agencies would upload data on grants and other public assistance activities to the system to identify organized criminal organizations and individuals stealing from multiple programs across agencies.
Second on the list is a $25 million request from Rep. Robert Alexander Andrade, R-2, for an enterprise resource planning computer system modernization for the University of Florida (UF).
The APR states that modernizing UF’s computer system would streamline and modernize business processes, improve and enhance access to data and reporting, and support strategic decision-making, establishing a sustainable environment.
Next is a request for $5.5 million to carry out the “Lee Health Data Center and Cybersecurity Enhancement Project” from Rep. Mike Giallombardo, R-79. Lee Health is a nonprofit public hospital district and health system that serves Lee County.
Giallombardo’s request seeks to “modernize Lee Health’s IT infrastructure to ensure secure, reliable health-care operations.” Funding would specifically support the design, construction and equipment for increased capacity, resilience, 24/7 availability and advanced cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive patient data and comply with regulations.
Fourth on the list is a $3.5 million request from Rep. Susan Valdés, R-64, for “CTE Database Management.” The project aims to “streamline and automate many of the manual processes required by district admin, like work hours and on-the-job training. Many of these functions are not currently being done. The system will also give [the Florida Department of Education] optics into the data surrounding [Career Technical Education], career path, completions of credentials and deficiencies in a student’s portfolio.”
Last is a request for $3 million from William Conerly, R-72, for data analytics software for hurricane preparedness, response and recovery.
According to the APR, “funds will be used to expand successful use of the platform to integrate more critical data sources across Manatee County Public Safety into the data analytics platform, and to initiate the deployments of the five other counties in FEMA Region 6.”
It would also enable the platform to integrate emergency management and operations data to create broader regional information sharing and collaboration before, during and after emergencies.
More information about these APRs can be found online.
Representatives Outline IT Appropriations Project Requests
With two weeks left in the legislative session, here are five of the largest IT appropriations project requests from Florida House of Representatives members.
