By:  Junell                                           H.B. No. 1010
       73R5109 JRD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the state's use and acquisition of information
    1-3  technologies.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The Information Resources Management Act (Article
    1-6  4413(32j), Revised Statutes) is amended by adding Sections 10A,
    1-7  13A, 18A, and 20A to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 10A.  INTERAGENCY LICENSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE.  The
    1-9  department shall appoint an advisory committee composed of state
   1-10  agency purchasing, technical, and legal experts for the purpose of
   1-11  studying and making recommendations about matters related to the
   1-12  licensing of information resources technologies.
   1-13        Sec. 13A.  COST REDUCTION PLAN.  (a)  The department, with
   1-14  the assistance of appropriate state agencies, shall prepare a
   1-15  comprehensive plan that identifies actions the state can take
   1-16  because of its purchasing power to reduce the cost of acquiring and
   1-17  maintaining information resources technologies.  The plan must
   1-18  include specific recommendations for reducing costs and a timetable
   1-19  for implementing the recommendations.  To the extent allowed by
   1-20  law, the department and each state agency, as appropriate, shall
   1-21  implement the recommendations.
   1-22        (b)  The department shall complete the plan not later than
   1-23  December 1, 1993, and shall promptly send a copy of the completed
   1-24  plan to the governor, the Legislative Budget Board, and appropriate
    2-1  state agencies.
    2-2        (c)  This section expires September 1, 1995.
    2-3        Sec. 18A.  COORDINATED NEGOTIATIONS FOR SOFTWARE.  (a)  A
    2-4  state agency shall inform the department and the attorney general
    2-5  when the agency intends to negotiate a contract or a licensing
    2-6  agreement under which the agency will grant or receive a right
    2-7  related to software.
    2-8        (b)  The agency shall send a proposed contract or license
    2-9  related to software to the department and to the attorney general
   2-10  for review and comment before the agency enters into the contract
   2-11  or licensing agreement.
   2-12        (c)  The department, attorney general, and state agencies
   2-13  shall enter into coordinated multiagency negotiations to obtain
   2-14  software whenever possible to take advantage of the state's volume
   2-15  purchasing power.
   2-16        Sec. 20A.  AUDIT OF SOFTWARE INVENTORY, LICENSES, AND
   2-17  CONTRACTS.  Each state agency shall audit biennially the agency's
   2-18  software inventory and the licenses and contracts related to the
   2-19  inventory.  The department and the attorney general on request
   2-20  shall assist an agency to conduct the audit.  An audit must
   2-21  evaluate:
   2-22              (1)  whether the agency needs all the software in its
   2-23  inventory;
   2-24              (2)  the state's rights and obligations under the
   2-25  agency's software contracts and licensing agreements; and
   2-26              (3)  whether the agency may obtain better prices,
   2-27  terms, or performance under its current or future software
    3-1  contracts and licensing agreements.
    3-2        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-8  passage, and it is so enacted.