Electronic Government
Electronic Government Systems
2001 Enacted Legislation
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Arizona
H.B.
2042
Provides for an on-line bidding process for municipal bonds.
H.B.
2043
Requires an agency web site to contain a privacy policy statement to
disclose the information gathering and dissemination practices related
to the Internet.
H.B.
2205
Appropriates money to the department of commerce for implementation
of initiatives associated with the Arizona partnership for the new economy.
The department shall use monies for initiatives relating to telecommunications
infrastructure development, electronic government, high technology industry
cluster business development and coordination, electronic learning, entrepreneurial
business assistance and new economy marketing development
H.B.
2582
Authorizes a procurement officer to utilize electronic, on-line bidding
for the purchase of goods, services, construction and information services
if it is more advantageous than other procurement methods.
Arkansas
H.B.
1043
Requires the Department of Human Services to place the affidavit form
for placement on the voluntary adoption registry on the Department's Internet
website.
H.B.
2017
Makes an appropriation for information technology initiatives for the
Department of Health for the biennial period ending June 30, 2003.
H.B.
2062
Makes an appropriation for personal services and operating expenses
for the Office of Information Technology for the biennial period ending
June 30, 2003.
H.B.
2364
Amends various provisions of the Arkansas Information Systems Act of
1997.
H.B.
2403
Requires state agencies to develop policies regarding the use of the
Internet.
S.B.
461
Makes an appropriation for the Department of Health for information
technology.
S.B.
495
Creates the Geographic Information Systems Fund.
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California
S.B.
46
Authorize the Department of Motor Vehicles, in conformance with certain
provisions in existing law relating to personal services contracts with
private parties, to establish contracts for electronic programs to join
the Department with qualified private industry partners to provide title
and vehicle registration transactions and would authorize the department
to enter into contractual agreements with three specified types of private
industry partners.
Colorado
H.B.
1136
Creates a statewide fire fighting resource database.
Sponsor: Representative Witwer
H.B.
1210
Authorizes the Department of Revenue to hold hearings on revocations
of drivers' licenses electronically.
H.B.
1307
Requires the Secretary of State to develop or acquire an electronic
voter registration and election management system for use by county election
officials.
Florida
S.B.
2220
Authorizes governmental agencies to acquire, hold and enforce copyrights
for data processing software they create; authorizes sale or license of
such software; provides requirements for electronic recordkeeping systems
and for access to public records in such systems; prohibits contracts for
public records databases that impair public access to such records.
Georgia
H.B.
725
Exempts employee purchase programs facilitated by the Georgia Technology
Authority from the prohibition on personal purchases through the authority;
authorizes any department, agency, authority, or political subdivision
of this state to deduct designated amounts from the salaries or wages of
its employees for the purpose of payment of indebtedness for certain employee
purchase programs facilitated by and through the Georgia Technology Authority.
S.B.
50
Provides for electronic collection and transmission of certain Superior
Court data and the use of and access to such data; provides for the transmission
of certain data to the Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority and
the retransmission of such data to the Georgia Crime Information Center;
authorizes the maintenance of records in digital format; and provides that
a clerk of a superior court electing to store records in digital format
shall maintain back-up records or shall send copies of such digitally formatted
records to the Georgia Department of Archives and History.
S.B.
230
Relates to information technology, so as to provide that public agencies
that maintain geographic information systems shall be authorized to contract
for the provision of such services.
Hawaii
S.B.
1011
Establishes a special fund to help support the operation and maintenance
of the statewide planning and geographic information system and enables
the Office of Planning to charge fees for statewide geographic information
system services.
Illinois
H.R.
263
Directs the Auditor General to conduct an audit of each State officer
and agency that maintains a World Wide Web site and determine whether the
officer or agency uses technology that allows it to track the browsing
or buying habits of Internet users.
Indiana
H.B.
1130
Imposes a document storage fee and an automated record-keeping fee
in all civil, criminal, infraction, and ordinance violation cases. Provides
that the document storage fee is to be deposited in the court clerk's record
perpetuation fund. Provides that the automated record keeping fee is to
be transferred to the state for distribution of money to the judicial technology
and automation project fund. Appropriates the money in the fund to the
use of the project.
H.B.
1170
Provides that a driver's license or permit and a state identification
card must bear a photograph or a computerized image of the bearer. Provides
that an individual may apply for renewal of several types of licenses by
mail or electronic service under certain circumstances. Establishes the
state motor vehicle technology fund. Provides for an increase of $1 in
service charges for various Bureau of Motor Vehicle transactions during
2002 and 2003. Provides that the additional $1 collected in service charges
during 2002 and 2003 be allocated to the state motor vehicle technology
fund.
H.B.
1510
Requires the Indiana Election Division to make voter registration forms
available on the Internet website maintained by the division so that the
forms can be downloaded. Requires the state Department of Health and the
Department of Correction to make certain information concerning deceased
voters and incarcerated individuals available to the election division
electronically.
H.B.
1841
Transfers from the Department of State Revenue to the Child Support
Bureau of the Division of Family and Children the responsibility to operate
a data match system with financial institutions to provide information
to the Bureau concerning non-custodial parents who are delinquent in the
payment of child support.
S.B.
441
Allows a county or municipality to use its cumulative capital improvement
fund for certain computer technology expenses.
S.B.
474
Provides that an electronic record of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles
obtained from the Bureau by digital signature that bears an electronic
signature is admissible in a court proceeding as if the copy were the original.
Specifies that fees imposed to obtain a certified copy of a record or an
electronic record from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles apply to law enforcement
agencies and to agencies of government. Requires the Bureau of Motor Vehicles
to give precedence to requests from law enforcement agencies and agencies
of government for certified copies of records. Provides that in a proceeding,
prosecution, or hearing where the prosecuting attorney must prove that
the defendant had a prior conviction for a motor vehicle offense, the relevant
portions of a certified computer printout or electronic copy made from
the records of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles are admissible as prima facie
evidence of the prior conviction.
Iowa
H.F. 292
Requires the monies collected from electronic financial transactions
by accessing the IowAccess system shall be deposited in the general fund.
H.F.
470
Provides for the protection of proprietary rights and collection of
fees for software, network designs, and technology applications of the
Iowa communications network.
Kentucky
H.B. 112
Permits the Board of Telehealth to expand the telehealth network to
include any site operating as a telemedicine or telehealth site as of the
effective date of the Act if the site demonstrates its capability to follow
the board's protocols and standards, and permits the commissioner of the
Department for Workers' Claims to require the use of telemedicine or telehealth
practices in the independent medical evaluation process, if feasible and
appropriate.
Maine
L.D.
578
Adds a $15 surcharge to the costs of recording deeds subject to the
real estate transfer tax. Of the revenues generated, 25 percent will be
used by the Office of Geographic Information Systems, in coordination with
the State Planning Office, to develop, coordinate and maintain a regionally-based,
coordinated geographic information system. Sixty-five percent of the surcharge
revenues will be disbursed by each county to its designated regional service
provider to enhance the ability of regional councils and municipalities
to develop and use geographic information systems technology and related
tools to track patterns of development and plan for development in accordance
with the objectives of the state's "Smart Growth" initiative.
L.D.
669
Clarifies that public service infrastructure includes streetscape improvements
that are critical to the "livability" of communities and the hardware necessary
to support the development and operation of geographic information systems.
Maryland
S.B. 626
Establishes a specified computerized information system within the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to coordinate immunization data
from health care providers; specifies who is an authorized user of the
information in the system; establishes the purposes of the computerized
information system; specifies what records may be used to collect information
for the system; provides an exemption to allow specified individuals who
receive immunizations to refuse to provide data to the system.
Mississippi
H.B.
818
Provides that the statewide scientific information management system
strategic plan shall be developed and prepared only in the event that the
Mississippi Scientific Information Management System Coordinating Council
is funded.
S.B.
3001
Authorizes the Board of Commissioners of the Municipal Gas Authority
of Mississippi to participate and vote in meetings via telecommunications
or electronic means.
S.B.
3089
Makes an appropriation for the purpose of defraying the expenses of
the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services for fiscal
year 2002.
Montana
H.B.
239
Provides for access to information technology for individuals who are
blind or visually impaired through the purchase of technology in accordance
with standards for equivalent access by both visual and non-visual means.
H.B.
281
Adopts the Governmental Internet Information Privacy Act requiring
governmental entities that provide an Internet website to provide notice
of the entities' information practices; and prohibiting the collection
of personally identifiable information unless the website operator complies
with certain provisions.
H.B.
393
Allows a probable cause hearing for a youth taken into custody for
questioning to be by videoconference.
H.B.
417
Authorizes the commissioner of Insurance to participate in a national
centralized producer license registry.
H.B.
577
Authorizes the Department of Justice to obtain a loan from the Board
of Investments for the purpose of financing an information technology system
for the Motor Vehicle Division; increases the lien filing fee to $8 to
fund repayment of the motor vehicle information technology loan; and creates
a motor vehicle information technology system account in the state special
revenue fund.
Nebraska
L.B. 308
Authorizes the Department of Administrative Services to pay wages to
state employees by electronic funds transfer or a similar means of direct
deposit if the state employee has consented in writing or electronically
to this manner of payment.
L.B. 334
Requires the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission to establish a telehealth
system to provide access for deaf and hard of hearing persons in remote
locations to mental health, alcoholism, and drug abuse services.
L.B. 574
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to begin issuing operator's
licenses and state identification cards using digital images and digital
signatures and to allow for electronic renewal of certain operator's licenses
and state identification cards.
Nevada
A.B.
529
Makes an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for software
and computer equipment for the Nevada rural health communications system.
S.B.
32
Allows witness to testify at a preliminary examination or before a
grand jury through the use of audiovisual technology under certain circumstances.
S.B.
435
Makes an appropriation to the Division of Mental Health and Developmental
Services of the Department of Human Resources for new and replacement equipment,
maintenance, and new and replacement computer hardware and software at
the Nevada Mental Health Institute.
S.B.
446
Makes an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for new
and replacement equipment and computer hardware and software for the Division
of Mental Health and Developmental Services.
New Hampshire
H.B.
547
Authorizes participation in a regional electronic toll collection system
with the Interagency Group.
New Jersey
A.B.
2249
S.B.
1078
Requires Department of Community Affairs to establish procedures for
electronic tax lien sales by municipalities.
A.B.
2531
Appropriates $500,000 for the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
S.B.
1449
Establishes a pilot program for the electronic purchase of certain
commodities and services and sale of surplus personal property, requires
the Department of Community Affairs to study the use of electronic technology
by local units and makes an appropriation.
New Mexico
H.B.
608
Relates to electronic records; provides for technological neutrality;
changes definitions; provides broad rule-making authority; changes responsibility
for electronic authentication of documents from the Secretary of State
to the Information Technology Management Office.
New York
A.B. 83
S.B. 4592
Substituted by A.B. 83 8/2/01
Provides for the registration of nonresident pharmacies, including
those nonresident pharmacies that do business over the Internet.
sors: Assembly Member Morelle and Senator Lavalle
A.B. 2358
S.B. 4624
Substituted by A.B. 2358 6/21/01
Enacts the Internet Privacy Practices Act; provides protective measures
for customers of state agencies vis a vis Internet and web
site information applicable to them
A.B. 4256
Substituted by S.B. 3337
S.B. 3337
Authorizes the county of Ontario to allow electronic appearances in
certain criminal proceedings; extends the effective date of §180.20
of the criminal procedure law, relating to the authorization of allowing
electronic appearances in criminal proceedings.
North Carolina
H.B.
1073
Creates an automation enhancement and preservation fund and expands
the uniform fees for services charged by registers of deeds and enhances
the standards for instruments to be registered in the office of the register
of deeds.
H.B.
1169
Amends the local government purchasing laws under the laws relating
to public contracts and the sale of property for cities and towns to authorize
electronic advertisements for letting contracts.
H.B.
1362
Requires the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a statewide,
on-line, central registry for advance health care directives. The registry
shall be accessible over the Internet through a site maintained by the
Secretary of State.
S.B.
1070
Establishes a dispute resolution procedure to assist the Office of
Information Technology in the collection of fees related to information
technology services provided by the Office.
North Dakota
H.B. 1105
Creates a computerized central indexing systems for records required
under the Uniform Commercial Code.
S.B. 2022
Appropriates funds for the Information Technology Department.
S.B. 2173
Requires the county treasurer to establish a document preservation
fund. The revenue in the fund may be used only for contracting for and
purchasing equipment and software for a document preservation, storage,
and retrieval system; training employees to operate the system; maintaining
and updating the system; and contracting for the offsite storage of microfilm
or electronic duplicates of documents for the county register of deeds'
office.
Oklahoma
H.B. 1662
Creates a state portal system; authorizes certain state entities charge
a convenience fee for electronic/on-line transactions; requires certain
records be kept; allows for adjustment of the convenience fee; requires
certain state entities to use an open-systems concept for an electronic
portal system; creates the State Governmental Internet Applications Review
Board; states purpose of the Board; provides for membership, terms, officers,
and travel reimbursement; states duties and responsibilities of the Board;
and provides for codification.
S.B. 384
Provides for electronic receipts and electronic documents; provides
for electronic receipt and electronic document systems; and states parameters
for persons holding electronic receipts or electronic documents under the
Public Warehouse and Commodity Indemnity Act.
Oregon
H.B.
2002
Directs Secretary of State to develop and implement centralized voter
registration system for state. Directs review by Joint Legislative Committee
on Information Management and Technology.
H.B.
3159
Requires Oregon Economic and Community Development Commission to encourage
infrastructure projects that benefit Internet-based entities and employees.
H.B.
3372
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services and state agencies
to implement portfolio-based management of information technology resources.
Requires department to develop and implement plan for managing distributed
information technology assets. Requires Department of State Police to develop
plan for integration of information technology among criminal justice agencies.
H.B.
3389
Requires state agencies to make reports available on Internet by June
30, 2005. Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt
rules.
H.B.
3399
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to procure all
information technology for state agencies.
S.B.
229
Authorizes Economic and Community Development Department to designate
up to five existing enterprise zones as electronic commerce zones. Exempts
certain property of business firm engaged in electronic commerce from property
taxation if located in enterprise zone designated for electronic commerce.
S.B.
262
Permits State Board of Education to adopt standards for Oregon electronic
student records. Allows approved educational institutions to participate
in Oregon electronic student record program.
South Dakota
S.B.
30 Signed by governor 3/1/01
Authorizes the Board of Pardons and Paroles to conduct hearings by
telephone conferencing or interactive video-conferencing during a regularly
scheduled hearing.
Texas
H.B.
35
Specifies that a meeting of a governmental body may be held by videoconference
call only if a majority of the quorum of the governmental body is physically
present at one location of the meeting.
H.B.
100
States that health care activities that are done via the Internet are
regulated by the licensing authority.
H.B.
249
Authorizes a state agency's information resources manager to prepare
reports on the extent to which the computer technology and electronically
stored information of a state agency or a state contractor are vulnerable
to unauthorized access or harm.
H.B.
1535
Creates an electronic motor vehicle lien system.
S.B.
187
Creates the Texas Online Commission and project to provide government
services through a secure and uniform online system.
S.B.
625
Authorizes the clerk of the Court of Criminal Appeals to maintain writs
and other records and documents in an electronic storage format.
S.B.
1458
Relating to the management of state agency and local government electronic
projects, equipment, and contracts, to the purchase and use of certain
advanced technological equipment, and to the use of outside personnel by
the comptroller of public accounts.
Utah
H.B.
27
Modifies the Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act and the Administrative
Procedures Act by amending statutory language to facilitate the electronic
delivery of government services by governmental agencies; provides definitions
for purposes of electronic records in governmental agencies; and amends
provisions relating to the cost of rulemaking publications.
H.B.
35
Modifies the Information Technology Act by amending the Utah Technology
Infrastructure Innovation Program to expand the program to allow grants
for cross-agency technology innovation projects.
H.B.
89
Appropriates $100,000 for fiscal year 2001-02, from the General Fund
to the Department of Health Bureau of Primary Care, Rural and Ethnic Health,
to establish and oversee a rural telepharmacy system.
S.B.
11
Modifies the Motor Vehicle Code and the Public Safety Code making technical
changes to facilitate the provision of government services electronically.
S.B.
211
Provides that ordination by Internet is not valid in Utah for the performing
of marriage ceremonies.
Virginia
H.B.
1926
S.B.
1023
Clarifies that state agencies and local governments, whom already had
statutory authority to contract with the Virginia Information Providers
Network Authority (Authority) for use of the Authority's facilities and
Authority's services, may pay for such use and services. Provides that
the Authority may fix and collect fees for such use and services, and further
clarifies that state funds may not be used for the Authority's purposes
except as provided by the Code of Virginia.
H.B.
2421
Provides that any electronically transmitted Governor's warrant of
arrest shall be treated as an original document if it precedes receipt
of the original by no more than four days.
S.B.
1003
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a statewide
program to manage used motor oil, oil filters and antifreeze and create
and promote a web site to provide consumers with information on collection
sites.
S.B.
1245
Authorizes the Department of Technology Planning to establish a non-stock
corporation as an instrumentality to assist the Department and its Geographic
Information Network Division in the development and acquisition of geographic
data and statewide base map data. Requires the Department to annually report
to the Governor and General Assembly on the activities of the non-stock
corporation.
S.B.
1250
Requires the Commissioner of Health, as part of the development of
a statewide database module with local compatibility, to implement a pilot
project for the Counties of Bedford, Franklin, and Pittsylvania to computerize
the data on septic systems with the goal of producing data capable of being
merged with real estate records, particularly for the areas surrounding
Smith Mountain Lake. The pilot project must establish a database for the
storage and retrieval of information on local septic systems based on installation
permits. Information resulting from septic tank pumpouts and other maintenance
must also be included in this database. All the information in the database
must be capable of being merged with the local real estate records.
S.J.R.
403
Requests the Departments of General Services, Transportation, and Technology
Planning, in consultation with the Joint Commission on Technology and Science,
be requested to study the methods and technologies needed to implement
competitive procurement via electronic means, including electronic sealed
bidding. In conducting this study, each Department shall also determine
and recommend any changes to the provisions of the Code of Virginia that
are specific to that Department and are necessary to accommodate that Department's
electronic competitive procurement, in light of the provisions of the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act under § 59.1-486 of the Code of Virginia.
The Departments are requested to submit their findings and recommendations
to the Governor and the 2002 Session of the General Assembly.
West Virginia
S.B. 476
Establishes information technology access for blind or visually impaired.
Wyoming
H.B. 111
Relates to revisions of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code; providing
for a central filing system at the office of the Secretary of State; maintaining
local filing to perfect a security interest in a motor vehicle; requiring
a local area network to be implemented by July 1, 2002.
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