Bill Text: NY A00215 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates a task force on information services technology development to develop policies that will benefit NYS residents by fostering the free market development and beneficial use of advanced communications networks and information technologies; 31 member task force to provide reports and recommendations to the governor and both houses of the legislature by July 1, 2012 and July 1, 2013.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-31 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A00215 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A00215-Introduced.html
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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT creating a task force on information services technology develop-
ment to develop policies that will benefit residents of New York state
by fostering the free market development and beneficial use of
advanced communications networks and information technologies, and
providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that the devel-
2 opment of policies that foster the free market development and benefi-
3 cial use of advanced communications networks and information technolo-
4 gies is of great importance to the residents of New York state. The
5 legislature further finds that this can best be accomplished by the
6 creation of a task force on information services technology development.
7 S 2. Task force on information services technology development. The
8 secretary of state is hereby directed to create a task force on informa-
9 tion services technology development. The objectives of such task force
10 shall be to:
11 (a) promote the development of a framework that will ensure that New
12 York state has an aggressive information technology (IT) economic devel-
13 opment process that focuses on creating, retaining, and recruiting IT
14 companies under circumstances which foster technological and knowledge-
15 based innovations, entrepreneurship, and investment in a trained and
16 skilled workforce; to increase national, international, and global
17 awareness of New York as an environment ideally suited for the success-
18 ful advancement of the information technology business sector;
19 (b) promote the development of strategies to ensure that K-12 educa-
20 tional institutions develop policies and programs that promote techno-
21 logical innovation and improve education in order to enhance the state's
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 innovative capacity and create a more productive citizenry that can
2 navigate, adapt, and prosper in the information economy;
3 (c) promote the development of strategies to assist educational insti-
4 tutions in establishing policies and programs that will produce a highly
5 skilled IT workforce, and encourage public/private partnerships in the
6 development of IT curriculum, research, funding, and training;
7 (d) promote the development of policy recommendations to ensure that
8 New York's public and private sectors will focus on bridging the gap
9 between the information-rich and the information-poor in order to foster
10 equal access to IT for all New Yorkers;
11 (e) promote the development of strategies to ensure that government
12 institutions use technology to increase the quality and cost-effective-
13 ness of their services, while also fostering broader use of information
14 technologies among and between residents and businesses. Also, to
15 promote the development of policies which ensure that government serves
16 as a catalyst for advancing the digital economy by refocusing government
17 procurement power, and provide a critical mass of digital services;
18 (f) evaluate laws, rules, and procedures to ensure that they facili-
19 tate, or at least do not hinder, the growth of electronic commerce
20 (eCommerce);
21 (g) evaluate whether laws, rules, and procedures should be created,
22 amended or repealed to reflect the impact of eCommerce on our state and
23 to foster the growth of eCommerce while protecting consumer rights; and
24 (h) promote the development of policies to ensure that New York has
25 sufficient communications infrastructure and high bandwidth capacity to
26 support our growing information economy; to evaluate the sufficiency of
27 New York IT research and development centers to ensure that New York is
28 creating an environment that continuously develops new technologies and
29 applications.
30 S 3. Composition. The task force shall consist of thirty-one members.
31 The task force shall include: the secretary of state, the attorney
32 general, the commissioner of education, the chancellor of the state
33 university of New York, the commissioner of economic development, the
34 commissioner of general services, the director of the division of the
35 budget, the executive director of the New York state office of science,
36 technology and academic research; seven members shall be appointed by
37 the governor, one of whom the governor shall name as chair of the task
38 force; seven members to be appointed by the temporary president of the
39 senate; one member to be appointed by the minority leader of the senate;
40 seven members to be appointed by the speaker of the assembly; and one
41 member to be appointed by the minority leader of the assembly. The seven
42 members appointed by the governor shall include: a college student who
43 relies on the Internet for personal or academic use; a representative of
44 a local government that is an alternative local exchange telecommuni-
45 cations company or an Internet service provider; and four persons as
46 determined by the governor to appropriately represent technology provid-
47 ers, manufacturers, retailers, and users. The seven members appointed by
48 the temporary president of the senate shall represent each of the
49 following categories: a facilities-based inter-exchange telecommuni-
50 cations company; a wireless telecommunications company; an alternative
51 local exchange telecommunications company; an Internet service provider
52 with more than one million customers; the entertainment industry; a
53 computer or telecommunications manufacturing company; and one member of
54 the senate. The seven members appointed by the speaker of the assembly
55 shall represent each of the following categories: a cable television
56 provider; a computer software company; the banking industry; an Internet
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1 search engine company; a local exchange telecommunications company; the
2 tourist industry; and one member of the assembly. Vacancies on the task
3 force shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments.
4 S 4. Report. The task force shall report its findings, conclusions and
5 recommendations to the governor, temporary president of the senate and
6 the speaker of the assembly by July 1 of calendar years 2012 and 2013.
7 The task force may develop and publish other documents throughout the
8 year as it deems necessary and/or appropriate.
9 S 5. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire July 1,
10 2013 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
11 repealed.
