------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LaTechSector] SB-455 Committee Vote today Date: 4/10/01 2:02:31 PM The bill to create a new chain of command for the state's Information Technology needs -- SB-455 -- comes up for action before the Senate & Governmental Affairs Committee today. The Committee convenes at 1:30 p.m. I've uploaded a copy of the bill to the Yahoo! Groups site. A notice containing a link to that file went out a few minutes ago. This is a solid piece of legislation. It moves all IT operations -- including the Office of Telecommunications Management -- under the CIO. This is an essential step towards bringing some order and efficiency to the state's internal IT efforts. Higher education, the Legislature and the Courts are excluded from this effort. As I mentioned last week, word is that there is quiet but significant opposition mounting to this bill. Read the bill and you'll understand why. For starters, it brings both OTM and the members of the Council of Information Service Directors under the CIO and the Office of Electronic Services. It disbands the Database Commission. Others outside of state government are threatened by this bill as well, particularly vendors of "telephone" equipment. Apparently a move is underway by these folks to keep the CIO and the Office of Information Policy (the formal name for this new organization) out of existing vendor/client relationships. In other words, these vendors don't want the move to standards to apply to them -- at least not right away. This would, in effect, "Grandfather" in wasteful spending and purchasing practices for the near term. For instance, such a provision would lock the state into operating separate voice and data networks at a time when the rest of the world is moving rapidly towards converged voice and data networks because of the savings and efficiencies that a single network can deliver. This is an essential bill that will lay the ground work for the State of Louisiana to take advantage of best practices in computing and networking developed in both the public and private sectors. It will also enable the state to create some best practices of its own. WHAT?!!! LOUISIANA LEAD?!!! What a concept!!! Please take a few minutes today to contact members of the Senate & Governmental Affairs Committee via e-mail today. If you can, you could also try to call them; leaving a message expressing your strong support for SB-455 will be nearly as effective as speaking to them directly. If we are ever going to bring the efficiencies of modern IT to state government in Louisiana, this bill is the essential first step. Mike Stagg digitallouisiana.org Here are the names of the committee members, the city/town of the District Office and their e-mail address. CHAIRMAN -- Sen. Chris Ullo Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] VICE CHAIMAN -- Sen. Jon D. Johnson New Orleans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen. Robert Barham Rayville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen. James David Cain Dry Creek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen. John J. "Jay" Dardenne Baton Rouge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen. Noble E. Ellington Winnsboro [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The "o" in Ellington is dropped in the address, according to the Committee web page.) Sen Charles D. "C.D." Jones Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <p><p>To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ <p>-------- End of forwarded message --------
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