§ 752 - Functions
§ 752. Functions
(a) The legislative information technology committee shall be responsible for the coordination and integration of information technology in the legislative branch in order to ensure that legislative records that are created, received, stored,or transmitted by that technology enhance legislative goals and priorities and conform to Vermont's recordkeeping requirements.
(b) The committee shall prepare, adopt, and maintain a long-range plan of at least five years for information technology operations and services in the legislative branch. The plan shall analyze the costs and benefits and risk management aspects of maintaining authentic and accessible legislative records as required by Vermont law. In the preparation of the plan, the committee shall consult with members of the general assembly, the legislative staff information systems team established by section 753 of this title, and other legislative staff, the state archivist, other representatives of the executive and judicial branches of state government, and members of the public. The committee shall provide the house and senate committees on government operations with copies of the plan and any amendment to the plan.
(c) The committee shall also adopt an annual budget for expenditures for legislative information technology and services and present the same to the committees on appropriations of the general assembly in each annual budget process. (Added 2005, No. 64, § 1; amended 2007, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 6.)