Requires the State Chief Information Officer to contract for an independent assessment of the information technology environment within the executive department, to include recommendations for improving performance, operations and resources.

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 3230
Ordered by the House March 31
Including House Amendments dated March 31
Sponsored by Representative NATHANSON, Senator WOODS, Representative MANNIX; Representative WALTERS
(Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: Makes the State Chief Information Officer contract with a third party for a study of how
the state uses information and technology and advise on how to improve. Makes the officer submit
a report. The Act takes effect on its passage. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Requires the State Chief Information Officer to contract for an independent assessment of the
information technology environment within the executive department, to include recommendations
for improving performance, operations and resources.
Directs the officer to submit a report on the results of the assessment and recommendations to
the Governor and the Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology and
any other appropriate legislative committee.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to information technology; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section, “executive department” has the meaning given
that term in ORS 174.112, except that “executive department” does not include the Secretary
of State in performing the duties of the constitutional office of Secretary of State or the
State Treasurer in performing the duties of the constitutional office of State Treasurer.
(2) The State Chief Information Officer shall contract with a third party to conduct an
independent assessment of the information technology environment within the executive
department.
(3) The assessment shall:
(a) Examine the current:
(A) Information technology governance programs used within the executive department;
and
(B) Organizational and operational environments that are affecting performance, oper-
ations and resources within the executive department;
(b) Identify and describe alternative information technology governance programs and
organizational and operational models for consideration to be used by or within the executive
department;
(c) Recommend an information technology governance program and organizational and
operational models that may be adopted and used by or within the executive department to
improve performance, operations and resources;
(d) Conduct a gap analysis to compare the current information technology environment
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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with the recommended information technology environment; and
(e) Provide a plan to implement the recommendations, including estimated costs and time
frames.
(4) The assessment must be completed no later than March 31, 2026.
(5) The State Chief Information Officer shall submit a report in the manner provided by
ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the Governor and to the
Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology and any other ap-
propriate legislative committee no later than April 30, 2026. The report submitted under this
subsection shall provide the results of the assessment and include a budget request to carry
out the plan to implement the recommendations.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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