General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1088
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 3868
*03868_______PRI*
Referred to Committee on Program Review and Investigations
Introduced by:
(PRI)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 1088
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 3868
*03868_______PRI*
Referred to Committee on Program Review and Investigations
Introduced by:
(PRI)
AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PROGRAM REVIEW AND INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE CONCERNING E-GOVERNMENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 4d-2 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2011):
(a) There is established the Department of Information Technology. The Department of Information Technology shall be administered by a Chief Information Officer, who shall be an individual knowledgeable with respect to information and telecommunication systems. The Chief Information Officer shall be appointed by the Governor in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-5 to 4-8, inclusive, with the powers and duties prescribed in said sections.
(b) The Department of Information Technology shall constitute a successor department to the Office of Information and Technology, in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-38d, 4-38e and 4-39.
(c) The Chief Information Officer shall: (1) Develop and implement an integrated set of policies and architecture pertaining to information and telecommunication systems for state agencies; (2) develop a series of comprehensive standards and planning guidelines pertaining to the development, acquisition, implementation, and oversight and management of information and telecommunication systems for state agencies; (3) identify and implement (A) optimal information and telecommunication systems to efficiently service the needs of state agencies, and (B) opportunities for reducing costs for such systems; (4) approve or disapprove, in accordance with guidelines established by the Chief Information Officer, each proposed state agency acquisition of hardware or software for an information or telecommunication system, except for (A) hardware or software having a cost of less than twenty thousand dollars, or (B) hardware or software having a cost of twenty thousand dollars or more, but less than one hundred thousand dollars, which is for a project that complies with the agency's business systems plan as approved by the Chief Information Officer; (5) approve or disapprove, in accordance with guidelines established by the Chief Information Officer, all state agency requests or proposed contracts for consultants for information and telecommunication systems; (6) be responsible for purchasing, leasing and contracting for all information system and telecommunication system facilities, equipment and services for state agencies, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of section 4d-8, except for the offices of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Attorney General, Secretary of the State and Comptroller; (7) review existing and new information and telecommunication system technologies to ensure consistency with the strategic plan established under section 4d-7, as amended by this act, and approved state agency architecture and make recommendations to the Standardization Committee established under section 4a-58 for review and appropriate action; (8) cooperate with the General Assembly, the Judicial Department and the constituent units of the state system of higher education in assessing opportunities for cost savings and greater sharing of information resources which could result if such entities acquire information and telecommunication systems similar to those of state agencies; (9) ensure state-wide implementation of the 9-1-1 and E 9-1-1 systems; [and] (10) report annually, on or before February fifteenth, in accordance with section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies and government administration and elections on all technology projects on which the department is working or that the department plans to undertake; and (11) compile statistics concerning the amount of use of the state central Internet web site and individual state agency Internet web sites each year and post such statistics on the Internet web site of the department.
(d) The Department of Information Technology shall approve or disapprove a state agency request or proposed contract under subdivision (4) or (5) of subsection (c) of this section no later than seven business days after receipt of the request or proposed contract and any necessary supporting information. If the Department of Information Technology does not approve or disapprove the request or proposed contract by the end of such seven-day period, the request or proposed contract shall be deemed to have been approved. The provisions of said subdivision (5) shall not apply to telecommunication consultants retained by the Department of Public Utility Control or the Office of Consumer Counsel in connection with telecommunication proceedings of said department.
(e) The Chief Information Officer shall, within available appropriations, designate an e-government director. Said director shall assist the Chief Information Officer to implement the expansion of e-government in state agencies. Not later than January 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the director shall submit a report on the status of e-government projects and services, including a complete list of on-line services offered and recommendations for additional on-line services and statistics concerning the use of on-line services, to the Chief Information Officer.
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Each state agency's Internet web site shall be (1) hosted by a method provided by the Department of Information Technology, and (2) designed using the template provided by the Department of Information Technology, unless exempted from such requirements by any provision of the general statutes or by the Chief Information Officer.
Sec. 3. Subsection (c) of section 4d-7 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(c) [Each] On or before January 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, each state agency shall prepare an information technology plan and shall submit to the Chief Information Officer [all plans, documents and] such plan and any other information requested by the Chief Information Officer. [for the development of such plan.] Such plan shall include, but not be limited to, (1) the information technology priority objectives of the agency, (2) any major planned or existing initiatives related to information technology, including initiatives involving state and local government coordination, (3) specific information technology projects to assist or provide services to the public and any efforts made to conduct transactions electronically, (4) a summary of statistics concerning use of the agency Internet web site, and (5) efforts of the agency to develop public and private partnerships to accomplish information technology objectives.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2011 4d-2
Sec. 2 from passage New section
Sec. 3 from passage 4d-7(c)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
July 1, 2011
4d-2
Sec. 2
from passage
New section
Sec. 3
from passage
4d-7(c)
Statement of Purpose:
To implement the recommendations of the Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee concerning e-government, including to require the designation of an e-government director within the Department of Information Technology, require the Chief Information Officer to compile statistics concerning state agency Internet web site use, to require state agencies to use the central state Internet web site and template for their web sites and to require state agencies to submit their information technology plans annually to the department.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]