TO: | Honorable Will Hartnett, Chair, House Committee on Judiciary |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB2506 by Hartnett (Relating to the applicability of the Information Resources Management Act and related laws to judicial agencies.), As Introduced |
The bill would require that the Department of Information Resources provide assistance to a judicial agency. The proposed bill defines "judicial agency" as a department, commission, board, office, council, authority, or other agency in the judicial branch of state government that is created by the constitution or a statute of this state.
The bill would include the following services: technical and managerial assistance relating to information resource management; in the preparation of projects to be submitted as part of the agency's legislative appropriation request; and computer services under interagency contracts.
The bill would also provide that the Department of Information Resources may include terms in a procurement contract entered into by the department that allow the contract to be used by a judicial agency or a court and that the person who performs a similar function of information resource manager for a judicial agency may prepare or have a report prepared assessing the vulnerability of a computer program, a computer network, a computer system, computer software, or data processing of the agency.
Source Agencies: | 212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts, 313 Department of Information Resources
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LBB Staff: | JOB, MN, MS, EP
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