Colorado § 24-37.5-101 Legislative declaration - findings

Colorado Statutes

§ 24-37.5-101 — Legislative declaration - findings

Colorado § 24-37.5-101

Title 24Government

Art.Office of Information Technology

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-37.5-101 (2026).

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(1)The general assembly hereby finds and declares that:

(a)Communication and information resources in the various agencies of state government are valuable strategic assets belonging to the people of Colorado that must be managed accordingly; (a.5) It is imperative that the long-term sustainability and eventual retirement of information technology systems be considered when initiating a major information technology project and that project plans include the various components that will result in project success;

(b)Technological and theoretical advances in the area of communication and information use are recent in origin, immense in scope and complexity, and progressing rapidly;

(c)The nature of these advances presents Colorado with the opportunity to provide higher quali

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(1) The general assembly
hereby finds and declares that:

(a) Communication and information resources in the various agencies of
state government are valuable strategic assets belonging to the people of Colorado
that must be managed accordingly;

(a.5) It is imperative that the long-term sustainability and eventual
retirement of information technology systems be considered when initiating a major
information technology project and that project plans include the various
components that will result in project success;

(b) Technological and theoretical advances in the area of communication and
information use are recent in origin, immense in scope and complexity, and
progressing rapidly;

(c) The nature of these advances presents Colorado with the opportunity to
provide higher quality, more timely, and more cost-effective governmental services;

(d) Agencies independently acquire uncoordinated and duplicative
information resource technologies that are more appropriately acquired as part of a
coordinated effort for maximum cost effectiveness and use;

(e) The sharing of communication and information resource technologies
among agencies is often the most cost-effective method of providing the highest
quality and most timely governmental services that would otherwise be cost
prohibitive;

(f) Considerations of both cost and the need for the transfer of information
among the various agencies and branches of state government in the most timely
and useful form possible require a uniform policy and coordinated system for the
use and acquisition of communication and information resource technologies; and

(g) It is the policy of this state to coordinate and direct the use of
communication and information resources technologies by state agencies and to
provide as soon as possible the most cost-effective and useful retrieval and
exchange of information both within and among the various state agencies and
branches of government and from the state agencies and branches of government
to the people of Colorado. To that end, the office of information technology is
created.

Legislative History

Source: L. 99: Entire article added with relocations, p. 864, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2006: (1)(g) amended, p. 1725, � 1, effective June 6. L. 2012: (1)(a.5) added, (HB 12-1288), ch. 67, p. 232, � 1, effective August 8.