(a) “Information technology” means all present and future forms of hardware, software and services for data processing, office automation and telecommunications.
(b) “State agency” means a board, commission, department, division, office or other entity within the executive department, as defined in ORS 174.112, except:
(A) The Secretary of State;
(B) The State Treasurer;
(C) The Oregon State Lottery; and
(D) A public university that is listed in ORS 352.002.
(2) The State Chief Information Officer shall adopt a policy and a procedure for state agencies to follow in requesting funding for information technology budgets and projects, including replacements, modernizations, upgrades and expansions of information technology systems. Each state agency that intends to request funding for a budget or project described in this subsection shall submit the request to the State Chief Information Officer and the office of Enterprise Information Services for review not later than the date in each biennium that the State Chief Information Officer specifies.
(3) The State Chief Information Officer, in collaboration with the Legislative Fiscal Office, shall establish criteria for assigning priorities among the budgets and projects described in subsection (2) of this section.
(4) The office of Enterprise Information Services, in collaboration with affected state agencies, shall evaluate budget and project requests the state agencies submit under subsection (2) of this section against the criteria that the State Chief Information Officer and Legislative Fiscal Office specify under subsection (3) of this section. The office of Enterprise Information Services shall then recommend for the State Chief Information Officer’s approval priority rankings of the requests within the context of all of each state agency’s requests, the requests in a program area and the requests that the executive department submits as a whole. In recommending the ranking, the office of Enterprise Information Services shall consider whether, and the extent to which, a request:
(a) Is consistent with and supports implementation of the Enterprise Information Resources Management Strategy described in ORS 276A.203 (4)(a)(M);
(b) Involves or promotes the use of shared systems, resources or data;
(c) Uses commercially available systems or software;
(d) Enhances the information security posture of the agency or the state; and
(e) Reduces system redundancies within an agency, a program area or the state.
(5) Not later than November 30 of the even-numbered year in each biennium the State Chief Information Officer shall submit to the Governor and the Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology a report that:
(a) Lists the priority rankings described in subsection (4) of this section;
(b) Includes a list of the information technology services and the recommendation from the State Chief Information Officer that is required under ORS 276A.203 (4)(a)(L); and
(c) Describes critical information technology system or service needs not otherwise identified within the priority rankings described in subsection (4) of this section.
(6) After the Legislative Assembly adopts a budget for the state, the State Chief Information Officer, in collaboration with the Legislative Fiscal Office, shall submit to the Governor and the Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology not later than October 31 of the odd-numbered year in each biennium a report that lists all of the information technology budget and project requests that the Legislative Assembly approved. [2025 c.469 §1]