Senate Bill No. 503
(By Senator Prezioso)
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[Introduced February 11, 1999; referred to the Committee on
Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section two, article one-b, chapter
five of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to technology; and defining
a term.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, article one-b, chapter five of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1B. CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER.
§5-1B-2. Definitions.
As used in this article:
(a) "Information systems" means 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 such as 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 and equipment and systems for
computer networks;
(d) "Related services" include feasibility studies, systems
design, software development and time-sharing services whether
provided by state employees or others;
(e) "Telecommunications" means 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; and
(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;
(g) "EPSCoR", the experimental program to stimulate
competitive research, is 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 governor's office of technology, is the
responsible organization for the coordination and submission of
proposals to all federal agencies participating in the EPSCoR
program.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to define EPSCoR, the
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.