Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1203

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State automated information processing installations and telecommunications projects and services.

Official statutory text

Sec. 203.

The department shall issue directives, after consultation with any affected state agency, relative to state automated information processing installations and telecommunications projects and services including the planning, establishment, consolidation, or outsourcing of state information processing installations and telecommunications projects and services to assure the design, implementation, and maintenance of effective and efficient support systems for state agencies.

Within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, the department shall report to the appropriations committees and the fiscal agencies for the immediately past completed fiscal year. The report shall include all of the following:

A departmental summary of expenditures and source of funding for all information technology projects undertaken by a principal department.

Expenditures on information technology hardware, information technology software, information technology consulting services entered into with the private sector, and expenditures related to state employees whose primary work assignment involves information technology support.

A distinction between information technology expenditures made directly by state departments and those expenditures made through contracts with the private sector.

An expenditure shall not be made for automated information processing unless the expenditure is pursuant to an automated information processing plan that is approved by the department.

The department shall develop and maintain a statewide plan for the effective and efficient utilization of information processing and telecommunication projects and services.

The department may arrange for and effect a unified and integrated statewide information processing and telecommunication system and provide for the administration of the system.

A state agency shall not purchase or operate a telecommunications facility or system or an automated data processing system or installation unless the facility, system, or installation is approved by the department.

Each state agency shall report to the department and to the appropriate appropriations committees and fiscal agencies on each informational system sold or marketed by the state agency or a contractor hired by the state agency. The report shall include all costs of development of the system, the income derived from the marketing or sale, and the disposition of the income.

History: 1984, Act 431, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985; Am. 1988, Act 504, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 1988; Am. 1999, Act 8, Imd. Eff. Mar. 22, 1999

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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