Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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22 By: Blanco H.B. No. 2192
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55 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
66 AN ACT
77 relating to comprehensive information security assessments on
88 state agency information resources and network systems and digital
99 data storage and security.
1010 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1111 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 2054, Government Code, is
1212 amended by adding Section 2054.136 to read as follows:
1313 Sec. 2054.136. FIVE-YEAR AGENCY INFORMATION SECURITY
1414 ASSESSMENT AND REPORT. (a) At least once every five years, a state
1515 agency shall conduct a comprehensive information security
1616 assessment of the agency's information resources systems, network
1717 systems, digital data storage systems, digital data security
1818 measures, and information resources vulnerabilities.
1919 (b) Not later than December 1 of the year in which a state
2020 agency conducts the information security assessment required under
2121 Subsection (a), the agency shall report the results of the study to
2222 the department, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the
2323 speaker of the house of representatives.
2424 (c) The department by rule may establish the requirements
2525 for the information security assessment and report required by this
2626 section.
2727 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.