AN ACT Relating to the data processing authority; and amending RCW 43.105.010, 43.105.032, and 43.105.041.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. Section 1, chapter 115, Laws of 1967 ex. sess. as amended by section 1, chapter 219, Laws of 1973 1st ex. sess. and RCW 43.105.010 are each amended to read as follows:

It is the purpose of this chapter to provide, through the Washington state data processing authority, for the efficient and coordinated utilization of data processing equipment, techniques, and personnel to achieve optimum effectiveness and economy in collection, storage, interchange, retrieval, processing, and transmission of information; to authorize development, implementation, and maintenance of a coordinated state-wide plan for data processing and data communications systems; to ensure that full compatibility exists among the separately installed elements of state data processing systems facilitating the interchange and sharing of information; to achieve consolidation of automated data processing resources and centralization of control over automated data processing; and to ensure that automated data processing systems shall serve the management and other needs of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of state and local government.

Sec. 2. Section 5, chapter 219, Laws of 1973 1st ex. sess. as last amended by section 86, chapter 287, Laws of 1984 and RCW 43.105.032 are each amended to read as follows:

There is hereby created the Washington state data processing authority consisting of eleven members appointed by the governor, and serving at his pleasure: PROVIDED, That one member shall be the person serving as coordinator for the computer support systems of the legislature. The governor shall make such appointments within thirty days after April 25, 1973.

Members of the authority shall be compensated for service on the authority in accordance with RCW 43.03.240 and shall be reimbursed for travel expenses as provided in RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060.

The authority shall elect a chairman from among its members and shall appoint an executive director within sixty days after April 25, 1973, subject to confirmation by a majority vote of the senate.

Sec. 3. Section 6, chapter 219, Laws of 1973 1st ex. sess. as amended by section 115, chapter 3, Laws of 1983 and RCW 43.105.041 are each amended to read as follows:

The authority shall have the following powers and duties:

(1) To study, organize, and/or develop automated data processing systems to serve interagency and intraagency needs of state agencies, to provide services of said nature, and to require the development of interagency automated data processing systems;

(2) To examine the desirability of removing common application systems, such as the payroll application system, from the individual agencies and assigning such functions to a single state agency;

(3) To make contracts, and to hire employees and consultants necessary or convenient for the purposes of this chapter, and fix their compensation; to enter into appropriate agreements for the utilization of state agencies and, where deemed feasible by the state data processing authority, of local government agencies, and their facilities, services, and personnel in developing and coordinating plans and systems, or other purposes of this chapter; to contract with any and all other governmental agencies for any purpose of this chapter including but not limited to mutual furnishing or utilization of facilities and services or for interagency, intergovernmental, or interstate cooperation in the field of data processing and communications;

(4) To develop and publish standards to implement the purposes of this chapter, including but not limited to standards for the coordinated acquisition and maintenance of data processing equipment and services, requirements for the furnishing of information and data concerning existing data processing systems by state offices, departments, and agencies and local government agencies, where deemed feasible by the state data processing authority, and standards and regulations to establish and maintain the confidential nature of information insofar as such confidentiality may be necessary for individual privacy and the protection of private rights in connection with data processing and communications;

(5) To purchase, lease, rent, or otherwise acquire and maintain automatic data processing equipment, or to delegate to other agencies and institutions of state government, under appropriate standards, the authority to purchase, lease, rent, or otherwise acquire and maintain automatic data processing equipment: PROVIDED, That in exercising such authority due consideration and effect shall be given to the overall purpose of this chapter and the statutory obligations, total management, and needs of each agency: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That, agencies and institutions of state government are expressly prohibited from acquiring data processing equipment without such delegation of authority. The acquisition of automatic data processing equipment is exempt, as provided in RCW 43.19.1901, from the provisions of RCW 43.19.190 through 43.19.200;

(6) To develop and implement standards and specifications to support achievement of full state-wide compatibility of hardware, software, and data communications;

(7) To require the consolidation of computing resources into central data processing service center or to establish central data processing service centers;

((~~(7)~~)) (8) To develop and maintain all state-wide or interagency data processing policies, standards, and procedures;

((~~(8)~~)) (9) To delegate to a single agency the responsibility for maintaining interagency applications systems;

((~~(9)~~)) (10) To provide to state agencies such automatic data processing technical training as is necessary or convenient to implement standardization of automatic data processing techniques;

((~~(10)~~)) (11) To carry out the tasks assigned in RCW 43.105.043 and to report periodically and as requested by the legislature to the legislature on its progress;

((~~(11)~~)) (12) To enact such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.