State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Connecticut > Title4d > Chap061 > Sec4d-2Sec. 4d-2. (Formerly Sec. 16a-110). Department of Information Technology. Chief Information Officer. Duties and responsibilities. (a) There is established the Department of Information Technology. The Department of Information Technology shall be administered by a Chief Information Officer, who shall be an individual knowledgeable with respect to information and telecommunication systems. The Chief Information Officer shall be appointed by the Governor in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-5 to 4-8, inclusive, with the powers and duties prescribed in said sections.
(b) The Department of Information Technology shall constitute a successor department to the Office of Information and Technology, in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-38d, 4-38e and 4-39.
(c) The Chief Information Officer shall: (1) Develop and implement an integrated set of policies and architecture pertaining to information and telecommunication systems for state agencies; (2) develop a series of comprehensive standards and planning guidelines pertaining to the development, acquisition, implementation, and oversight and management of information and telecommunication systems for state agencies; (3) identify and implement (A) optimal information and telecommunication systems to efficiently service the needs of state agencies and (B) opportunities for reducing costs for such systems; (4) approve or disapprove, in accordance with guidelines established by the Chief Information Officer, each proposed state agency acquisition of hardware or software for an information or telecommunication system, except for (A) hardware or software having a cost of less than twenty thousand dollars or (B) hardware or software having a cost of twenty thousand dollars or more, but less than one hundred thousand dollars, which is for a project that complies with the agency's business systems plan as approved by the Chief Information Officer; (5) approve or disapprove, in accordance with guidelines established by the Chief Information Officer, all state agency requests or proposed contracts for consultants for information and telecommunication systems; (6) be responsible for purchasing, leasing and contracting for all information system and telecommunication system facilities, equipment and services for state agencies, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of section 4d-8, except for the offices of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Attorney General, Secretary of the State and Comptroller; (7) review existing and new information and telecommunication system technologies to ensure consistency with the strategic plan established under section 4d-7 and approved state agency architecture and make recommendations to the Standardization Committee established under section 4a-58 for review and appropriate action; (8) cooperate with the General Assembly, the Judicial Department and the constituent units of the state system of higher education in assessing opportunities for cost savings and greater sharing of information resources which could result if such entities acquire information and telecommunication systems similar to those of state agencies; and (9) ensure state-wide implementation of the 9-1-1 and E 9-1-1 systems.
(d) The Department of Information Technology shall approve or disapprove a state agency request or proposed contract under subdivision (4) or (5) of subsection (c) of this section no later than seven business days after receipt of the request or proposed contract and any necessary supporting information. If the Department of Information Technology does not approve or disapprove the request or proposed contract by the end of such seven-day period, the request or proposed contract shall be deemed to have been approved. The provisions of said subdivision (5) shall not apply to telecommunication consultants retained by the Department of Public Utility Control or the Office of Consumer Counsel in connection with telecommunication proceedings of said department.
(P.A. 86-292, S. 1, 5; P.A. 89-257, S. 2, 14; P.A. 95-38, S. 4; 95-285, S. 7, 9; P.A. 96-156, S. 3; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9, S. 2, 50.)
History: P.A. 89-257 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring office of information and technology to report directly to secretary of office of policy and management, changing "director" to "executive director", requiring him to be knowledgeable with respect to "information and telecommunication systems" instead of "telecommunications" and adding provision re notice of his appointment, and repealed former Subsecs. (b), (c) and (d) and replaced them with new Subsec. (b) re duties and responsibilities of executive director; (Revisor's note: In 1995 a reference to "division of consumer counsel" was replaced editorially by the Revisors with "Office of Consumer Counsel" to conform section with Sec. 16-2a, as amended by P.A. 88-22); P.A. 95-38 required notification of General Assembly rather than legislative committee on information and telecommunication systems in Subsec. (a); P.A. 95-285 substituted "4a-58" for "4a-56" in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-156 amended Subsec. (b) to provide in the alternative that Office of Information and Technology rather than its executive director alone shall carry out responsibilities under Subdivs. (4) and (5), added Subparas. (A) and (B) under Subdiv. (4) of Subsec. (b) to qualify previous $20,000 limitation on amounts agencies could spend without approval of the office, designated latter part of Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c), adding provision imposing three-day limit on time to approve or disapprove state agency requests or proposed contracts and made technical changes; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9 amended section by substituting "Department of Information Technology" for "Connecticut State Office of Information and Technology" and substituting "Chief Information Officer" for "executive director", amended Subsec. (a) re appointment of Chief Information Officer, added new Subsec. (b) making Department of Information Technology a successor to Office of Information and Technology, relettered former Subsecs. (b) and (c) as (c) and (d), amended Subsec. (c) by inserting new Subdiv. (6) re responsibility for purchasing, leasing and contracting, renumbering remaining Subdivs. accordingly, substituting "constituent units of the state system of higher education" for "Labor Department" in Subdiv. (8) and adding Subdiv. (9) re 9-1-1 and E 9-1-1 systems, and amended Subsec. (d) by substituting "seven-day" for "three-day" and repealing an exemption for the Employment Security Division of the Labor Department, effective July 1, 1997; Sec. 16a-110 transferred to Sec. 4d-2 in 1999.
