ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 503
(By Senator Prezioso)
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[Originating in the Committee on Education;
reported February 26, 1999.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section two, article one-b, chapter
five of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to technology; and defining
terms.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, article one-b, chapter five of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1B. CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER.
§5-1B-2. Definitions.
As used in this article:
(a) "Information systems" means computer-based information equipment and related services designed for the automated
transmission, storage, manipulation and retrieval of data by
electronic or mechanical means;
(b) "Information technology" means data processing and
telecommunications hardware, software, services, supplies,
personnel, maintenance and training, and includes the programs
and routines used to employ and control the capabilities of data
processing hardware;
(c) "Information equipment" includes central processing
units, front-end processing units, miniprocessors,
microprocessors and related peripheral equipment such as data
storage devices, networking equipment, services, routers,
document scanners, data entry equipment, terminal controllers,
data terminal equipment, computer-based word processing systems
other than memory typewriters and equipment and systems for
computer networks;
(d) "Related services" include feasibility studies, systems
design, software development and time-sharing services whether
provided by state employees or others;
(e) "Telecommunications" means any transmission, emission or
reception of signs, signals, writings, images or sounds of
intelligence of any nature by wire, radio or other
electromagnetic or optical systems. The term includes all
facilities and equipment performing those functions that are
owned, leased or used by the executive agencies of state government; and
(f) "Chief technology officer" means the person holding the
position created in section three of this article and vested with
authority to assist state spending units in planning and
coordinating information systems that serve the effectiveness and
efficiency of the individual state spending units, and further
the overall management goals and purposes of government; and
(g) "Experimental program to stimulate competitive research"
(EPSCoR) means the West Virginia component of the national EPSCoR
program which is designed to improve the competitive research and
development position of selected states through investments in
academic research laboratories and laboratory equipment. The
recognized West Virginia EPSCoR, which is part of the governor's
office of technology, is the responsible organization for the
coordination and submission of proposals to all federal agencies
participating in the EPSCoR program.