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_____ 742 e) Nothing in this subsection shall prevent public institutions of higher education or the Virginia Community College System from using the services of Network Virginia. f) To ensure that the Commonwealth's research universities maintain a competitive position with access to the national optical research network infrastructure including the National LambdaRail and Internet2, the Network Virginia Contract Administrator is hereby authorized to renegotiate the term of the existing contracts. Additionally, the contract administrator is authorized to competitively negotiate additional agreements in accordance with the Code of Virginia and all applicable regulations, as required, to establish and maintain research network infrastructure. 2. If the billing rates and associated systems for computer, telecommunications and systems development services to state agencies are altered, the Director, Department of Planning and Budget, may transfer appropriations from the general fund between programs affected. These transfers are limited to actions needed to adjust for overfunding or underfunding the program appropriations affected by the altered billing systems. 3. The provisions of this subsection shall not in any way affect the duties and responsibilities of the State Comptroller under the provisions of § 2.2-803, Code of Virginia. 4. It is the intent of the General Assembly that information technology (IT) systems, products, data, and service costs, including geographic information systems (GIS), be contained through the shared use of existing or planned equipment, data, or services which may be available or soon made available for use by state agencies, institutions, authorities, and other public bodies. State agencies, institutions, and authorities shall cooperate with the Virginia Information Technologies Agency in identifying the development and operational requirements for proposed IT and GIS systems, products, data, and services, including the proposed use, functionality, capacity and the total cost of acquisition, operation and maintenance. 5. This section shall not apply to public institutions of higher education governed by some combination of Chapters 933 and 945 of the 2005 Acts of Assembly, Chapters 824 and 829 of the 2008 Acts of Assembly, those public institutions of higher education that have a Management Agreement with the Commonwealth of Virginia pursuant to the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act, or to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority. 6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, state agencies that do not receive computer services from the Virginia Information Technologies Agency may develop their own policies and procedures governing the sale of surplus computers and laptops to their employees or officials. Any proceeds from the sale of surplus computers or laptops shall be deposited into the appropriate fund or funds used to purchase the equipment. c. MOTOR VEHICLES AND AIRCRAFT: 1. No motor vehicles shall be purchased or leased with public funds by the state or any officer or employee on behalf of the state without the prior written approval of the Director, Department of General Services. 2. The institutions of higher education and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority shall be exempt from this provision but shall be required to report their entire inventory of purchased and leased vehicles including the cost of such to the Director of the Department of General Services by June 30 of each year. The Director of the Department of General Services shall compare the cost of vehicles acquired by institutions of higher education and the Authority to like vehicles under the state contract. If the comparison demonstrates for a given institution or the Authority that the cost to the Commonwealth is greater for like vehicles than would be the case based on a contract of statewide applicability, the Governor or his designee may suspend the exemption granted to the institution or the Authority pursuant to this subparagraph c. 3. The Director, Department of General Services, is hereby authorized to transfer surplus motor vehicles among the state agencies, and determine the value of such surplus equipment for the purpose of maintaining the financial accounts of the state agencies affected by such transfers. d. MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION AND RADIO SERVICES PRODUCTION: Except for public institutions of higher education that have a Management Agreement with the Commonwealth of Virginia pursuant to the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act, no state Executive Department agency or the Virginia Lottery Department shall expend any public funds for the production of motion picture films or of programs for television transmission, or for the operation of television or radio transmission facilities, without the prior written approval of the Governor or as otherwise provided in this act, except for educational television programs produced for elementary-secondary education by authority of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. The Joint Subcommittee on Rules is authorized to provide the approval of such expenditures for legislative agencies. For judicial agencies and independent agencies, other than the Virginia Lottery Department, prior approval action rests with the supervisory bodies of these entities. With respect to television programs which are so approved and other programs which are otherwise authorized or are not produced for television transmission, state agencies may enter into contracts without competitive sealed bidding, or competitive negotiation, for program production and transmission services which are performed by public telecommunications entities, as defined in § 2.2-2006, Code of Virginia. e. TRAVEL: Reimbursement for the cost of travel on official business of the state government is authorized to be paid pursuant to law and regulations issued by the State Comptroller to implement such law. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law: