Texas § GV.2054.203 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLANNING AND POLICY
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§ GV.2054.203. TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLANNING AND POLICY
TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLANNING AND POLICY. (a) The department shall comprehensively collect and manage telecommunications network configuration information about existing and planned telecommunications networks throughout state government. (b) The department may require state agencies to submit to the department the agencies' network configuration information, but the department must use existing reports to gather the information if possible and minimize the reporting burden on agencies to the extent possible. (c) The department shall establish plans and policies for a system of telecommunications services. (d) The department shall develop a statewide telecommunications operating plan for all state agencies. The plan shall implement a statewide network and include technical specifications. (e) The department shall adopt appropriate policies and standards that govern the cost-effective and efficient management, operation, and use of state telecommunications services and shall distribute those policies and standards to all state agencies. (f) Each state agency shall comply with the rules, policies, standards, and guidelines the department adopts under this section. (g) Strategic planning for all state telecommunications services shall be performed in accordance with the guiding principles of the state strategic plan for information resources management. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 606, Sec. 20, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1422, Sec. 4.07, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 394 (S.B. 757 ), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2007. Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 393 (H.B. 1705 ), Sec. 1.03, eff. September 1, 2009.
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