2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 4d-12. (Formerly Sec. 16a-115). Advisory committees authorized. Information and telecommunication systems executive steering committee established.

      Sec. 4d-12. (Formerly Sec. 16a-115). Advisory committees authorized. Information and telecommunication systems executive steering committee established. (a) The Chief Information Officer may establish such committees as he deems necessary to advise said office in carrying out the purposes of sections 4d-1 to 4d-5, inclusive, section 4d-7 and sections 4d-11 to 4d-14, inclusive.

      (b) There is established an information and telecommunication systems executive steering committee consisting of the Chief Information Officer, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, the Comptroller, the Treasurer, the Commissioner of Administrative Services and the chairperson of the board of trustees of each constituent unit of the state system of higher education, or their designees. The Chief Information Officer, or his designee, shall serve as chairman of the committee. The Department of Information Technology shall serve as staff to the committee. The committee shall (1) review and approve or disapprove the annual information and telecommunication systems strategic plan developed under section 4d-7, state agency estimates of expenditure requirements for information and telecommunication systems established under section 4d-11, and major telecommunication initiatives, (2) review, in consultation with the Department of Information Technology, and approve or disapprove variances to (A) the list of approved architectural components for information and telecommunication systems for state agencies, (B) the strategic plan and (C) appropriations for information and telecommunication systems and (3) advise the Department of Information Technology on the organization and functions of the department. The committee shall submit a report on each approved variance to the General Assembly. Such report shall include the reasons for the variance and the results of a cost-benefit analysis on the variance.

      (P.A. 89-257, S. 5, 14; P.A. 95-38, S. 5; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9, S. 7, 50; P.A. 99-71, S. 4.)

      History: P.A. 95-38 required submission of report to General Assembly rather than legislative committee on information and telecommunication systems in Subsec. (b); June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9 substituted "Chief Information Officer" for "executive director of the Office of Information and Technology" and "Department of Information Technology" for "Office of Information and Technology" and amended Subsection (b) by adding Chief Information Officer and chairperson of board of trustees of each constituent unit of state system of higher education to steering committee and making Chief Information Officer, instead of Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, the steering committee chairman, effective July 1, 1997; Sec. 16a-115 transferred to Sec. 4d-12 in 1999; P.A. 99-71 changed reference to "4d-15" to "4d-14" in Subsec. (a).