BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: April 20, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND CONSUMER
PROTECTION
Mary Hayashi, Chair
AB 2408 (Smyth) - As Introduced: February 19, 2010
SUBJECT : State government information technology.
SUMMARY : Codifies the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 of
2009 (GRP 1), which consolidated state information technology
functions under the Office of the State Chief Information
Officer (OCIO), and repeals the sunset on the OCIO, as
specified.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Transfers all the duties, functions, employees, property, and
related funding of the Division of Telecommunications from the
Department of General Services (DGS) to the OCIO.
2)Renames the Department of Technology Services (DTS) the Office
of Technology Services, and transfers it from the State and
Consumer Services Agency (SCSA) to the OCIO.
3)Renames the DTS Revolving Fund the Technology Services
Revolving Fund, and makes conforming changes.
4)Eliminates the Office of Information Security and Privacy
Protection (OISPP), and instead creates the Office of
Information Security within the OCIO and the Office of Privacy
Protection within the SCSA.
5)Transfers to the OCIO all employees serving in state civil
service, other than temporary employees, who are engaged in
the performance of functions transferred to the OCIO and
maintains the status position and rights of those employees.
6)Transfers certain responsibilities related to creating the
state's Information Technology (IT) procurement policies from
the Department of Finance (DOF), DGS, and the Department of
IT, to the OCIO.
7)Mandates that GRP 1 become law unless either House of the
Legislature enacts a resolution disapproving such a plan
within 60 days.
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8)Requires the introduction of a bill not later than the next
regular legislative session after a Governor's reorganization
plan has taken effect, as specified, as may be necessary to
reflect the changes made by the reorganization plan. Such
bills ensure that statutory law is amended to conform to the
changes made by the reorganization plan, but failure to enact
such a bill shall not affect the validity of the plan.
9)Makes technical changes.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS :
Background . GRP 1 took effect on May 10, 2009. This bill was
introduced as a clean-up bill to change statutory language to
reflect the law.
According to the Governor's February 2009 report submitted to
the Little Hoover Commission "The Reorganization Plan
consolidates enterprise information technology functions under
the OCIO to improve coordination and realize significant
efficiencies in procurement and technology implementation.
"In the federated governance model, responsibilities will be
divided as follows:
The Enterprise Tier (OCIO) will provide robust IT
infrastructure for the entire government, offer shared
technology services across government, provide oversight to
reduce risk in IT project management, and enhance security
and stakeholder privacy.
The Agency Tier will provide program policy and
direction, prioritize Agency IT investments, and
consolidate IT resources to reduce operational costs.
The Department Tier will provide local desktop/LAN
support, manage business specific applications and purchase
IT resources necessary for department activities.
"This approach flows from business strategies and drivers and
uses enterprise architecture to ensure the wise investment of
limited resources. The federated governance framework enables
operational improvements by defining common or shared technology
(enterprise architecture) standards across diverse program
areas, providing interoperability and supporting the diverse
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programmatic missions of state agencies. This approach also
establishes a common platform and standards for operations and
growth, improves the speed of implementations and provides an
optimal return on investment."
Previous legislation .
AB 1266 (Huber) of 2009, which also attempted to codify GRP 1,
was held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
GRP 1 (Governor's Administration) of 2009 was heard in the
Assembly Business and Professions Committee on April 14, 2009.
The Committee recommended that GRP 1 be permitted to take effect
by a vote of nine to zero. As neither house adopted nor
rejected the plan, GRP 1 became effective on May 10, 2009 after
the sixty day mandatory period ended.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Office of the Chief State Information Officer (OCIO)
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Marina Wiant / B.,P. & C.P. / (916)
319-3301