Honorable Gary Elkins, Chair, House Committee on Government Transparency & Operation
FROM:
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB2192 by Blanco (Relating to comprehensive information security assessments on state agency information resources and network systems and digital data storage and security.), As Introduced
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend the Government Code to require that state agencies conduct comprehensive information security assessments. Agencies would report the results of the study at least once every five years to DIR, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of representatives. According to DIR, the Texas Department of Agriculture, Texas Board of Nursing, Department of Motor Vehicles and Texas A&M, no significant fiscal impact is anticipated as a result of the bill, and it is assumed that requirements could be absorbed within existing resources.
This analysis assumes DIR would not require agencies to contract with a third party vendor to perform these assessments and that DIR would also remain available to conduct a certain amount of security assessments each year to assist agencies with inadequate internal resources for this purpose. However, if DIR were not available to assist agencies and/or third party vendors were needed, the cost to conduct the assessments required by the bill could be significant for some agencies.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies:
302 Office of the Attorney General, 313 Department of Information Resources, 452 Department of Licensing and Regulation, 456 Board of Plumbing Examiners, 507 Texas Board of Nursing, 529 Health and Human Services Commission, 551 Department of Agriculture, 608 Department of Motor Vehicles, 710 Texas A&M University System Administrative and General Offices, 720 The University of Texas System Administration