Senate Bill sb1974

    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 1974

    By the Committee on Governmental Operations





    585-572-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to information technology

  3         management; creating s. 282.0051, F.S.;

  4         providing legislative findings and intent with

  5         respect to optimizing the state's use of

  6         information technology; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Section 282.0051, Florida Statutes, is

12  created to read:

13         282.0051  Information technology management.--The

14  Legislature finds that the state needs an information

15  technology architecture that supports the business needs of

16  individual agencies while optimizing the state's collective

17  use of information technology through integration,

18  coordination, consolidation, and sharing. It is the intent of

19  the Legislature that:

20         (1)  The state make governmental information and

21  services more accessible to the public by developing a

22  statewide Internet portal presence, a state e-mail system, and

23  state security protocols.

24         (2)  Each state agency develop and implement

25  information technology in the best interest of the state by

26  means that are cost-effective, efficient, and

27  non-vendor-specific, and that maximize use of shared data and

28  resources.

29         (3)  Agency information technology investments be

30  governed responsibly, consistent with fiscal and substantive

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 1974
    585-572-07




 1  policies established by the Legislature, and aligned with

 2  business needs.

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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