North Carolina Legislation 2003, Ch. 12: Information Technology
The most significant legislative changes in the information technology field this session were intended to improve the security, cost, and efficiency of IT processes. The legislature sought to streamline and standardize security requirements in a number of areas and made efforts to regulate contingency plan implementation by and reporting requirements for various state agencies. In the budget and appropriations arena, the legislature commissioned a number of studies to examine expenditures in state IT implementation and upgrade. In addition a number of bills were enacted to standardize procurement and transfer processes by allowing state agencies to make such transactions electronically.
The legislature also made significant changes to several sections of the state Help America Vote Act in order to bring it into compliance with the federal act of the same name. Much of the new language focuses on technology issues and is important in relationship both to how citizens of the state register to vote and to how the state collects and processes the registration information provided by those citizens.