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SENATE BILL 446

COMMITTEE: Public Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill clarifies the process for developing information technology plans and modifies the membership of the New Hampshire Council on Applied Technology and Innovation.

This bill was requested by the study committee established under 1999, 319.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

320:1 Information Technology Plan; Involvement of Stakeholders. Amend RSA 9:4-b to read as follows:

9:4-b Information Technology Plan. Each executive department shall prepare an information technology plan in accordance with the information technology planning process developed by the director of the [office] division of information technology management. The portion of each plan which addresses the upcoming biennium shall define the capital and operating budgets necessary for implementing the plan. The budget data in the information technology plan shall provide for both new information technology initiatives and existing operations and shall be consistent with the budget data submitted under RSA 9:4 and 9:4-a. In the case of the failure of any executive department to submit an information technology plan, the director of information technology management shall cause a plan to be prepared as in his opinion is reasonable and proper. Each information technology plan shall identify a process for collaborative involvement of stakeholders representing other levels of government within the state in the development, design, and deployment of information technology systems that involve or impact such other political subdivisions of the state.

320:2 Compatibility of Standards and Processes. Amend RSA 21-I:67, V and VI to read as follows:

V. Reviewing, assessing, and approving the feasibility of agency plans, including cost estimates and impacts on other agencies and political subdivisions of the state.

VI. Developing [those] standards [necessary] and processes for collaborative stakeholder involvement to assure that hardware, software, and telecommunications systems acquired or developed by the state are as compatible among themselves and with [existing state] other systems of the state and political subdivisions as [is] are necessary and practical.

320:3 Information Network Linking; Libraries and Local Governments. Amend RSA 12-H:1, I(g) to read as follows:

(g) Development of a statewide information network linking all schools, libraries, and state and local government[, and state departments and businesses].

320:4 New Subparagraph; Optimization of Benefits. Amend RSA 12-H:1, I by inserting after subparagraph (g) the following new subparagraph:

(h) How to optimize the benefits of information technology for the state, its political subdivisions, and its citizens.

320:5 Council Membership. Amend RSA 12-H:1, II(a)-(c) to read as follows:

(a) Three house members appointed by the speaker, who are to be one member from the house science and technology committee, one member from the house commerce[, small business, consumer affairs and economic development] committee, and one member from the house education committee.

(b) Three senators appointed by the senate president, who are to be one member from the senate energy and economic development committee, one member from the senate education committee, and one member from the senate public affairs committee.

(c) The governor or designee, the commissioner of the department of education or designee, [and] the commissioner of the department of administrative services or designee, the state librarian or designee, a representative from municipal government appointed by the New Hampshire Municipal Association, and a representative from county government appointed by the New Hampshire Association of Counties.

320:6 Definition of Stakeholder. Amend RSA 9:1 to read as follows:

9:1 Terms Used. In this chapter, the term "department" or "establishment" means any executive department, commission, board, institution, bureau, office, or other agency of the state government, by whatever name called, other than the legislature and the state judicial branch, that uses, expends or receives any state funds; the term "state funds" means any and all moneys appropriated by the legislature, or money collected by or for the state, or any agency thereof, pursuant to authority granted in any of its laws; the term "budget" means the budget document by this chapter required to be transmitted to the legislature; the term "stakeholder" means a person and/or group which can affect or is affected by the development, design, and/or development of information technology systems.

320:7 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: June 21, 2000)

(Effective Date: August 20, 2000)