(a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services may establish such committees as he deems necessary to advise the commissioner in carrying out the purposes of sections 4d-1 to 4d-5, inclusive, section 4d-7, this section and section 4d-11.

(b) There is established an information and telecommunication systems executive steering committee consisting of the following members or their designees: The Commissioner of Administrative Services, the Secretary of the State and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and not more than four other members who are commissioners of an executive branch state agency, appointed jointly by the Commissioner of Administrative Services and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. The Commissioner of Administrative Services, or a designee, shall serve as chairperson of the committee. The Department of Administrative Services shall serve as staff to the committee. The committee shall (1) review and approve or disapprove the annual information and telecommunication systems strategic plan developed under section 4d-7, state agency estimates of expenditure requirements for information and telecommunication systems established under section 4d-11, and major telecommunication initiatives, (2) review, in consultation with the Department of Administrative Services, and approve or disapprove variances to (A) the list of approved architectural components for information and telecommunication systems for state agencies, (B) the strategic plan, and (C) appropriations for information and telecommunication systems, and (3) advise the Department of Administrative Services on the organization and functions of the department in regards to information and telecommunication systems. The committee shall submit a report on each approved variance to the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a. Such report shall include the reasons for the variance and the results of a cost-benefit analysis on the variance.

(P.A. 89-257, S. 5, 14; P.A. 95-38, S. 5; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9, S. 7, 50; P.A. 99-71, S. 4; P.A. 11-51, S. 82; P.A. 13-91, S. 1; P.A. 14-202, S. 5.)

History: P.A. 95-38 required submission of report to General Assembly rather than legislative committee on information and telecommunication systems in Subsec. (b); June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9 substituted “Chief Information Officer” for “executive director of the Office of Information and Technology” and “Department of Information Technology” for “Office of Information and Technology” and amended Subsection (b) by adding Chief Information Officer and chairperson of board of trustees of each constituent unit of state system of higher education to steering committee and making Chief Information Officer, instead of Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, the steering committee chairman, effective July 1, 1997; Sec. 16a-115 transferred to Sec. 4d-12 in 1999; P.A. 99-71 changed reference to “4d-15” to “4d-14” in Subsec. (a); P.A. 11-51 changed “Chief Information Officer” to “Commissioner of Administrative Services”, changed “Department of Information Technology” to “Department of Administrative Services” and, in Subsec. (b)(3), added “in regards to information and telecommunication systems”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-91 amended Subsec. (b) to add, as member, Secretary of the State, to remove, as members, the Comptroller, Treasurer and chairperson of the board of trustees of each constituent unit of state system of higher education and to add, as members, four executive branch commissioners, to add requirement that report be submitted in accordance with Sec. 11-4a and to make a technical change; P.A. 14-202 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to Sec. 4d-14 and make a technical change, effective June 12, 2014.