Two days after a Senate oversight committee in Massachusetts questioned the authority of the state's IT department to standardize on formats for storing public documents and demanded that state officials take more time to study the potential impact of setting the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a standard, <A HREF="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2110&tag=nl.e539">an economic stimulus bill</A> that goes before the Massachusetts Senate has been suddenly amended with text that, if passed, would essentially subjugate all IT procurements and IT department decisions including standard setting to a special task force. Based on the way the amended text makes specific reference to document formats and technology selections for state workers with disabilities, it turns the stimulus bill into a bomb that could easily blow up ODF's already weakened chances of becoming a statewide document standard.