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Senate Bill No. 97
(By Senator Facemyer)
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[Introduced January 11, 2006; referred to the Committee
on Government Organization.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §5A-6-2 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto a
new section, designated §5A-6-4a, all relating to requiring
the Chief Technology Officer to maintain a central cross index
repository of forms used by state agencies; definitions; and
additional powers and duties of the Chief Technology Officer.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5A-6-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted; and that said code be amended by adding
thereto a new section, designated §5A-6-4a, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. TRANSPORTATION DIVISION.
§5A-6-2. Definitions.
As used in this article:
(a) "Information systems" means mean computer-based
information equipment and related services designed for the
automated transmission, storage, manipulation and retrieval of data
by electronic or mechanical means;
(b) "Information technology" means data processing and
telecommunications hardware, software, services, supplies,
personnel, maintenance and training, and includes the programs and
routines used to employ and control the capabilities of data
processing hardware;
(c) "Information equipment" includes central processing units,
front-end processing units, miniprocessors, microprocessors and
related peripheral equipment, including data storage devices,
networking equipment, services, routers, document scanners, data
entry equipment, terminal controllers, data terminal equipment,
computer-based word processing systems other than memory
typewriters;
(d) "Related services" include feasibility studies, systems
design, software development and time-sharing services whether
provided by state employees or others;
(e) "Telecommunications" means mean any transmission, emission
or reception of signs, signals, writings, images or sounds of
intelligence of any nature by wire, radio or other electromagnetic
or optical systems. The term includes all facilities and equipment
performing those functions that are owned, leased or used by the
executive agencies of state government;
(f) "Chief Technology Officer" means the person holding the
position created in section three of this article and vested with
authority to assist state spending units in planning and
coordinating information systems that serve the effectiveness and
efficiency of the individual state spending units, and further the overall management goals and purposes of government; and
(g) "Experimental program to stimulate competitive research"
(EPSCoR) means the West Virginia component of the national EPSCoR
program which is designed to improve the competitive research and
development position of selected states through investments in
academic research laboratories and laboratory equipment. The
recognized West Virginia EPSCoR, which is part of the Office of
Technology, is the responsible organization for the coordination
and submission of proposals to all federal agencies participating
in the EPSCoR program.
(h) "Form" means every piece of paper, computer disk,
transparent plate or film containing information, printed,
generated or reproduced by whatever means with blank spaces left
for the entry of additional information to be used in any
transaction involving an agency.
§5A-6-4a.
Cross index for state agency forms.
(a) The Chief Technology Officer shall maintain a central
cross index repository of agency forms to promote and provide a
central source of agency forms for common use and availability.
(b) Agencies shall provide, at the request of the Chief
Technology Officer, agency forms which the Chief Technology Officer
determines necessary to meet the requirements of this section.
(c) The Chief Technology Officer may:
(1) Study, develop and establish a program for the
coordination between agencies to develop forms for interagency and
common administrative use;
(2) Review agency forms for grammar, spelling, clerical and
technical correctness and advise agencies of any errors found upon
review;
(3) Develop a comprehensive system of numbering and
cataloguing of agency forms;
(4) Make recommendations to agencies for the economical and
uniform development of forms;
(5) Recommend measures to agencies to avoid undue creation and
reproduction of forms;
(6) Establish and develop a program for the availability of
agency forms through the use of information systems and information
technology, accessible to agencies and the general public; and
(7) Cooperate with and seek the assistance of the Director of
the Division of Purchasing within the Department of Administration
in the development of the agency forms program.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
require the Chief
Technology Officer to maintain a central cross index repository of
forms used by state agencies.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
§5A-6-4a
is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring
have been omitted.