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42.720 Legislative findings.
The General Assembly finds and declares that:
(1) The establishment of the position of the executive director of the
Commonwealth Office of Technology, appointed by the secretary of the
Finance and Administration Cabinet with the approval of the Governor, as the
Commonwealth's single point of contact and spokesperson for all matters
related to information technology and resources, including policies, standard
setting, deployment, strategic and tactical planning, acquisition, management,
and operations is necessary and in keeping with the industry trends of the
private and public sectors;
(2) The appropriate use of information technology by the Commonwealth can
improve operational productivity, reduce the cost of government, enhance
service to customers, and make government more accessible to the public;
(3) Government-wide planning, investment, protection, and direction for
information resources must be enacted to:
(a) Ensure the effective application of information technology on state
business operations;
(b) Ensure the quality, security, and integrity of state business operations;
and
(c) Provide privacy to the citizens of the Commonwealth;
(4) The Commonwealth must provide information technology infrastructure,
technical directions, and a proficient organizational management structure to
facilitate the productive application of information technology and resources to
accomplish programmatic missions and business goals;
(5) Oversight of large scale and government statewide systems or projects is
necessary to protect the Commonwealth's investment and to ensure
appropriate integration with existing or planned systems;
(6) A career development plan and professional development program for
information technology staff of the executive branch is needed to provide key
competencies and adequate on-going support for the information resources of
the Commonwealth and to ensure that the information technology staff will be
managed as a Commonwealth resource;
(7) The Commonwealth is in need of information technology advisory capacities to
the Governor and the agencies of the executive cabinet;
(8) Appropriate public-private partnerships to supplement existing resources must
be developed as a strategy for the Commonwealth to comprehensively meet its
spectrum of information technology and resource needs;
(9) Technological and theoretical advances in information use are recent in origin,
immense in scope and complexity, and change at a rapid rate, which presents
Kentucky with the opportunity to provide higher quality, more timely, and more
cost-effective government services to ensure standardization, interoperability,
and interconnectivity;
(10) The sharing of information resources and technologies among executive
branch state agencies is the most cost-effective method of providing the
highest quality and most timely government services that would otherwise be
cost-prohibitive;
(11) The ability to identify, develop, and implement changes in a rapidly moving
field demands the development of mechanisms to provide for the research and
development of technologies that address systems, uses, and applications;
and
(12) The exercise by the executive director of the Commonwealth Office of
Technology of powers and authority conferred by KRS 42.720 to 42.742,
45.253, 171.420, 186A.040, 186A.285, and 194A.146 shall be deemed and
held to be the performance of essential governmental functions.
Effective:June 25, 2009
History: Repealed, reenacted, and amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 2, effective
June 25, 2009. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 21, effective June 20,
2005; and ch. 99, sec. 3, effective June 20, 2005. -- Repealed, reenacted, and
amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 506, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000; and ch. 536,
sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 353, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1998.
Formerly codified as KRS 11.501 and 61.935.
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