The Oregon legislature passed a bill establishing the office...
The Oregon legislature passed a bill establishing the office of and clarifying the responsibilities of the state chief information officer, a position in the Department of Administrative Services. The heads of both the Oregon Senate and House signed the final…
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version of House Bill 3258 Tuesday. The bill covers many elements of the CIO role, touching on procurement and the state’s information technology and telecommunications plan. “The plan must provide for integrating statewide technology initiatives, ensuring compliance with information technology policies and standards, promoting alignment of information resources and technologies and effectively managing state agencies’ information technology portfolios,” the bill said. The plan’s development should include CIO consultation with and advice from “state agencies and local governments, from private sector information technology experts, from the Legislative Fiscal Officer, from a committee of the Legislative Assembly with oversight over information resource and technology issues or from individual members of the Legislative Assembly that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives appoint for the purpose of consulting with the State Chief Information Officer under this subsection.” It’s emergency legislation intended to take effect immediately the moment it becomes law.