The Florida Senate

282.005  Legislative findings and intent.--The Legislature finds that:

(1)  Information is a strategic asset of the state, and, as such, it should be managed as a valuable state resource.

(2)  The state makes significant investments in information technology resources in order to manage information and to provide services to its citizens.

(3)  An office must be created to provide support and guidance to enhance the state's use and management of information technology resources and to design, procure, and deploy, on behalf of the state, information technology resources.

(4)  The cost-effective deployment of technology and information resources by state agencies can best be managed by a Chief Information Officer.

(5)  The head of each state agency, in consultation with the State Technology Office, has primary responsibility and accountability for the planning, budgeting, acquisition, development, implementation, use, and management of information technology resources within the agency.

(6)  The expanding need for, use of, and dependence on information technology resources requires focused management attention and managerial accountability by state agencies and the state as a whole.

(7)  The agency head, in consultation with the State Technology Office, has primary responsibility for the agency's information technology resources and for their use in accomplishing the agency's mission. However, each agency shall also use its information technology resources in the best interests of the state as a whole and thus contribute to and make use of shared data and related resources whenever appropriate.

(8)  The state shall provide, by whatever means is most cost-effective and efficient, the information resources management infrastructure needed to collect, store, and process the state's data and information, provide connectivity, and facilitate the exchange of data and information among both public and private parties.

(9)  A necessary part of the state's information resources management infrastructure is a statewide communications system for all types of signals, including voice, data, video, radio, and image.

(10)  To ensure the best management of the state's information technology resources, and notwithstanding other provisions of law to the contrary, the functions of information resources management are hereby assigned to the Board of Regents as the agency responsible for the development and implementation of policy, planning, management, rulemaking, standards, and guidelines for the State University System; to the State Board of Community Colleges as the agency responsible for establishing and developing rules and policies for the Florida Community College System; to the Supreme Court, for the judicial branch; to each state attorney and public defender; and to the State Technology Office for the executive branch of state government.

(11)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this act, the State Technology Office shall take no action affecting the supervision or control of the personnel or data processing equipment that the Comptroller deems necessary for the exercise of his or her official constitutional duties as set forth in s. 4(d) and (e), Art. IV of the State Constitution.

(12)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this act, the State Technology Office shall take no action affecting the supervision and control of the personnel or data processing equipment which the Attorney General deems necessary for the exercise of his or her official constitutional duties as set forth in s. 4(c), Art. IV of the State Constitution.

History.--s. 8, ch. 97-286; s. 46, ch. 99-13; s. 3, ch. 2000-164.