| 1 | 1 | | By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 266 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to the review of information technology systems used by a |
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| 7 | 7 | | state agency for compatibility with open standards. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 441.203, Government Code, is amended by |
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| 10 | 10 | | adding Subsection (m) to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (m) The council, in cooperation with the Department of |
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| 12 | 12 | | Information Resources, shall: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (1) review each state agency's existing information |
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| 14 | 14 | | technology system to determine whether the system is compatible |
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| 15 | 15 | | with open standards; and |
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| 16 | 16 | | (2) consult with and provide assistance to state |
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| 17 | 17 | | agencies on: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (A) enhancing the state agency's information |
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| 19 | 19 | | technology system to achieve compatibility with open standards |
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| 20 | 20 | | where appropriate; and |
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| 21 | 21 | | (B) identifying and recommending information |
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| 22 | 22 | | technology systems that are compatible with open standards and |
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| 23 | 23 | | recognized best practices, including: |
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| 24 | 24 | | (i) open standards for document formats for |
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| 25 | 25 | | creating, exchanging, and maintaining electronic texts, |
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| 26 | 26 | | presentations, and spreadsheets, to replace outdated systems that |
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| 27 | 27 | | are to be retired or upgraded; |
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| 28 | 28 | | (ii) open standards for database systems |
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| 29 | 29 | | based on the Structured Query Language (SQL) standard defined by |
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| 30 | 30 | | the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), to replace |
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| 31 | 31 | | outdated systems based on nonrelational database technologies that |
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| 32 | 32 | | are to be retired or upgraded; |
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| 33 | 33 | | (iii) recognized best practices for the |
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| 34 | 34 | | structuring of data held in databases or disk file systems used by |
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| 35 | 35 | | mission-critical transaction processing applications, such that |
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| 36 | 36 | | the data is held in normalized relational data tables, to replace |
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| 37 | 37 | | outdated methods of data organization based on nonrelational or |
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| 38 | 38 | | highly nonnormalized data models, other than data warehouses and |
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| 39 | 39 | | business intelligence applications, that are to be retired or |
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| 40 | 40 | | upgraded; |
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| 41 | 41 | | (iv) open standards for computer |
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| 42 | 42 | | programming languages used for the development and maintenance of |
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| 43 | 43 | | applications, such that the programming languages used shall |
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| 44 | 44 | | conform to standards recognized by national or international |
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| 45 | 45 | | standards bodies, to replace applications developed in outdated |
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| 46 | 46 | | programming languages that are to be retired or upgraded; and |
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| 47 | 47 | | (v) open standards for operating system |
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| 48 | 48 | | hardware interface layers, such that operating systems used in |
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| 49 | 49 | | mission-critical applications are not tied exclusively to a single |
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| 50 | 50 | | brand of computer hardware or to a single type of microprocessor, to |
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| 51 | 51 | | replace outdated systems that are to be retired or updated. |
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| 52 | 52 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 53 | 53 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 54 | 54 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 55 | 55 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 56 | 56 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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