Year 2000 corps - House bill passed in Oregon

5/23/97  Forwarding FYI
>From: Diana Lindsley
>
>FYI - thought I'd pass on some info regarding Oregon House Bill 2903 -
>regarding  the Year 2000 and info from the local paper (Statesman Journal)
>article of today (May 22).
>
>Headline - Year 2000 corps would recode state computers
>Article bylined by: John Henrikson of the Statesman Journal, Salem Oregon
>
>Subhead -  The House passes a bill that would assemble a group of
>programmers to tackle the problem.
>
>Some excerpts from the article:
>
>Oregon may create a corps of students and seniors to fix the Year 2000
>computer bug.
>
>The House on Thursday unanimously passes House Bill 2903 to creat a 'Y2K
>Corps' that would recode the state's computers.
>
>The corps would be made up of students and retirees who would be employed
>temporarily by the state Department of Administrative Services.  .....
>
>The state alone had 59 million lines of code to reprogram.
>
>The bill creates a training program through community colleges and
>universites to teach students reprogramming skills. ...
>
>By using the corps, the state also will drastically reduce the price tag
>for the reporgramming, Adams said.  (Rep. Ron Adams is the bill's sponsor.)
>
>At market prices, the state would expect to pay about $83 million for the
>Year 2000 fix.  The 'Y2K Corps' should be able to accomplish it for about
>one-third of that, Adams said.
>
>The corps also would employ retired computer programmers, many of whom
>originally programmed the computers, as supervisors.
>
>End of exceprt
>
>The bill language is available on the Oregon Legislature's web site.  It
>now must go to the Ways & Means committee as well as the Senate.  
>___________
>Diana Lindsley
>Department of Administrative Services

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