16-3-809 - Judicial information system advisory committee Tennessee court information system software.
16-3-809. Judicial information system advisory committee Tennessee court information system software.
(a) There is created a Tennessee judicial information system advisory committee to oversee the development and modification of application software for the Tennessee judicial information system. The committee shall be composed of eighteen (18) members; five (5) court clerk members from each grand division appointed by the president of the Tennessee court clerks association; one (1) representative of the county audit division of the office of the comptroller of the treasury; the president of the Tennessee court clerks association and the administrative director of the courts shall serve as ex officio members.
(b) The advisory committee shall meet quarterly to review the development of the Tennessee court information system (TnCIS) software until the software is implemented statewide and collecting data from all ninety-five (95) counties.
(c) After implementation, the advisory committee shall meet periodically, as necessary, to review any major functional modification to TnCIS software; provided, that no major functional modification shall be made to the software without agreement between the administrative director of the courts and the president of the Tennessee court clerks association.
(d) Any court clerk's office which has a significant investment in an existing computer system shall not be required to modify or convert such existing system to accept TnCIS software; provided, that such court clerk shall report electronically all data required under Tenn. Sup. Ct. R. 11, § II, or otherwise required by the supreme court in a format prescribed by the administrative director of the courts.
[Acts 1998, ch. 686, § 1.]