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