A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT relating to the powers of the state chief information officer, to information technology project management, and to department of justice information technology exemptions; and appropriating funds to the office of Information technology services for two procurement attorney positions.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 147‑33.72E(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 147‑33.72E.  Project management standards.
(a)	Agency Responsibilities. – Each agency shall provide for a project manager or managers who meet the applicable quality assurance standards for each information technology project that is subject to approval under G.S. 143‑33.72C(a). Each project manager shall be subject to the review and approval of the State Chief Information Officer.
Each agency project manager shall provide periodic reports to the project management assistant assigned to the project by the State CIO under subsection (b) of this section. The reports shall include information regarding project costs, issues related to hardware, software, or training, projected and actual completion dates, and any other information related to the implementation of the information technology project."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 147‑33.83(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	With respect to all executive departments and agencies of State government, the Office of Information Technology Services shall have all of the following powers and duties:
(1)	To establish and operate information resource centers and services to serve two or more departments on a cost‑sharing basis, if the State CIO, after consultation with the Office of State Budget and Management, decides it is advisable from the standpoint of efficiency and economy to establish these centers and services.
(2)	With the approval of the Office of State Budget and Management, to charge each department for which services are performed its proportionate part of the cost of maintaining and operating the shared centers and services.
(3)	To require any department served to transfer to the Office ownership, custody, or control of information processing equipment, supplies, and positions required by the shared centers and services.
(4)	To adopt reasonable rules for the efficient and economical management and operation of the shared centers, services, and the integrated State telecommunications network.
(5)	To adopt plans, policies, procedures, and rules for the acquisition, management, and use of information technology resources in the departments affected by this section to facilitate more efficient and economic use of information technology in these departments.
(6)	To develop and promote training programs to efficiently implement, use, and manage information technology resources.
(7)	To provide cities, counties, and other local governmental units with access to the Office of Information Technology Services, information resource centers and services as authorized in this section for State agencies. Access shall be provided on the same cost basis that applies to State agencies."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 147‑33.91(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The provisions of this section shall not apply to the Judicial Information System in the Judicial Department."
SECTION 4.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of Information Technology Services the sum of two hundred ninety-eight thousand eight hundred twenty-six dollars ($298,826) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to fund two attorney positions to be established to assist with complex information technology procurement.
SECTION 5.  Section 4 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2006. The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.