52:9XX-1 - Findings, declarations - New Jersey Statutes

52:9XX-1.    Findings, declarations 
    1.   The Legislature finds and declares that:

   a.   information is a valuable and strategic asset of the State and should be managed effectively for the benefit of the State and the public; 

   b.   information technology is both the State's primary tool for reducing the costs of program operations and the key to success in providing quality services to the State's citizens; 

   c.   information resources management is ultimately the responsibility of the top nontechnical managers of the government; 

   d.   the Joint Legislative-Executive Information Processing Review Committee, established by correspondence between the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the General Assembly and the Governor to review the management of the State's information resources, found that a need exists for leadership and direction for all information resources management activities in the three branches of State government; 

   e.   to meet that need, the Joint Legislative-Executive Information Processing Review Committee has recommended the establishment of a New Jersey Information Resources Management Commission, which would operate through consensus and respect the unique constitutional prerogatives of each of the three branches of State government, with representatives from all three branches and with responsibility for establishing policies and standards to govern information management services in the three branches based on the foundation set forth by the Joint Legislative-Executive Information Processing Review Committee. 

   L.1993,c.199,s.1.