State government information technology.

(1) Existing law creates the office of the State Chief Information Officer, within the Governor's cabinet, with a State Chief Information Officer having specified duties in creating and managing the technology policy of the state. Existing law also creates the Division of Telecommunications within the Department of General Services, and requires the Telecommunications Division to perform numerous duties with regard to public safety, and emergency and nonemergency communications policies and facilities. This bill would transfer all the duties, functions, employees, property, and related funding of the Division of Telecommunications to the office of the State Chief Information Officer. (2) Existing law establishes the Department of Technology Services within the State and Consumer Services Agency, specifies the duties of the department's director, and establishes the Department of Technology Services Revolving Fund within the State Treasury. This bill would rename and transfer the Department of Technology Services to the Office of Technology Services within the office of the State Chief Information Officer, rename the Department of Technology Services Revolving Fund the Technology Services Revolving Fund, and make conforming changes. (3) Existing law establishes the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection in the State and Consumer Services Agency and the Office of Privacy Protection within the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection with duties to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of state systems and applications, and to promote and protect consumer privacy. This bill would eliminate the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection, and instead create the Office of Information Security within the office of the State Chief Information Officer, and the Office of Privacy Protection within the State and Consumer Services Agency, with a division of the duties, personnel, property, and funding of the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection between the 2 offices. (4) Existing law authorizes the Department of Finance, the Department of General Services, and the Department of Information Technology to create certain policies for the state's procurement of information technology. This bill would transfer certain of those duties to the office of the State Chief Information Officer.