Rep. John E. Bradley

Filed: 4/4/2013

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 278

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 278 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Open
5Operating Standard Act.
 
6    Section 5. Findings and purposes.
7    (a) The General Assembly finds that:
8        (1) the State of Illinois data portal,
9    data.illinois.gov, empowers the public to access and
10    utilize public data collected and maintained by the State
11    of Illinois and the federal government;
12        (2) the State of Illinois is committed to being a
13    national leader in improving access to public data sets for
14    all citizens and encouraging entrepreneurs and innovators
15    to draw on this data for the benefit of all in the Land of
16    Lincoln;

 

 

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1        (3) the State and the municipalities of Illinois
2    collect information and data on numerous topics, including
3    services available to the residents of Illinois;
4        (4) finding and utilizing government data, which
5    should be readily accessible, is often burdensome for both
6    developers and the general public;
7        (5) government information should be organized with
8    consistency and should be freely available; and
9        (6) meeting the State's commitment to providing open
10    data will require the adoption of an open data operating
11    standard and utilization of a cloud-based open data
12    platform for the State's open data portal, coordinated
13    strategic planning, where appropriate and feasible, by
14    agencies as to enterprise application portfolio
15    management, and will require the State to make its open
16    data portal available to all units of government within the
17    State, including, but not limited to, municipalities,
18    counties, and public universities statewide, so that
19    everyone may participate in the open data movement.
20    (b) The purposes of this Act are:
21        (1) to establish and implement a statewide commitment
22    to fully adopting an open operating standard, because
23    making public data available online using open standards
24    will make the operation of government across the State of
25    Illinois more transparent, effective, and accountable to
26    the public, will streamline intra-governmental and

 

 

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1    inter-governmental communication and interoperability,
2    will permit the public to assist in identifying efficient
3    solutions for government, will promote innovative
4    strategies for social progress, and will create economic
5    opportunities;
6        (2) to establish protocols for State agencies to make
7    public data available online using open standards and a
8    process establishing statewide information technology
9    management standards, policies, and governance principles
10    to enable the State to fully implement an open operating
11    standard while managing existing information technology
12    resources and capabilities with enhanced efficiency;
13        (3) to provide for coordinated strategic planning by
14    State agencies with respect to application modernization,
15    information technology, and telecommunication policy,
16    pursuant to a consistent statewide enterprise portfolio
17    strategy to maximize the amount of public data made
18    available and ensure compliance with this Act; and
19        (4) to establish, in accordance with Executive Order
20    2010-10, a policy under which each State agency will
21    evaluate cloud computing options before making any new
22    information technology or telecommunications investments.
 
23    Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
24    "Cloud computing" has the meaning provided by Special
25Publication 800-145 issued by the National Institute of

 

 

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1Standards and Technology of the United States Department of
2Commerce.
3    "Data" means final versions of statistical or factual
4information: (a) in alphanumeric form reflected in a list,
5table, graph, chart, or other non-narrative form that can be
6digitally transmitted or processed; and (b) regularly created
7or maintained by or on behalf of and owned by an agency that
8records a measurement, transaction, or determination related
9to the mission of an agency. "Data" does not include
10information provided to an agency by other governmental
11entities, nor does it include image files, such as designs,
12drawings, maps, photos, or scanned copies of original
13documents, except that it does include statistical or factual
14information about such image files and shall include geographic
15information system data. "Data" does not include:
16        (1) data to which an agency may deny access pursuant to
17    any provision of a federal, State, or local law, rule, or
18    regulation, including, but not limited to, the Freedom of
19    Information Act;
20        (2) data that contains a significant amount of
21    information to which an agency may deny access pursuant to
22    any provision of a federal, State, or local law, rule, or
23    regulation and where redacting such protected data in order
24    to publish the unprotected elements would impose undue
25    financial or administrative burden on the agency;
26        (3) data that reflects the internal deliberative

 

 

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1    process of an agency or agencies, including, but not
2    limited to, negotiating positions, future procurements, or
3    pending or reasonably anticipated legal or administrative
4    proceedings;
5        (4) data stored on an agency-owned personal computing
6    device, or data stored on a portion of a network that has
7    been exclusively assigned to a single agency employee or a
8    single agency owned or controlled computing device;
9        (5) materials subject to copyright, patent, trademark,
10    confidentiality agreements, or trade secret protection;
11        (6) proprietary applications, computer code, software,
12    operating systems, or similar materials;
13        (7) employment records, internal employee-related
14    directories or lists, facilities data, information
15    technology, internal service-desk and other data related
16    to internal agency administration; and
17        (8) any other data the publication of which is
18    prohibited by law.
19    "Open operating standard" means a technical standard
20developed and maintained by a voluntary consensus standards
21body that is available to the public without royalty or fee.
22    "Public data" means all data that is collected by any unit
23of State or local government pursuant to that entity's official
24responsibilities, that is otherwise subject to disclosure
25pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, and that is not
26prohibited from disclosure pursuant to any other contravening

 

 

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1legal instrument, including, but not limited to, a superseding
2provision of federal or State law or an injunction from a court
3of competent jurisdiction.
4    "State agency" or "agency" means an agency, board, or
5commission of State government under the jurisdiction of the
6Governor.
7    "Strategic plan" means an organization's evaluation, over
8a period of up to 5 years, of its strategy and direction,
9including a framework for decision-making with respect to
10resource allocation to achieve defined goals.
11    "Voluntary consensus standards body" means an organization
12that plans, develops, establishes, or coordinates voluntary
13consensus standards using agreed-upon procedures. A voluntary
14consensus standards body has the following attributes:
15openness; balance of interest; due process; an appeals process;
16and consensus.
 
17    Section 15. Chief Information Officer; open operating
18standard.
19    (a) There is created within the Office of the Governor a
20Chief Information Officer for the State. The Chief Information
21Officer shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor and shall
22receive such compensation as the Governor shall determine. The
23Chief Information Officer shall coordinate with each State
24agency to develop, using any existing or newly available
25resources and technology, appropriate systems to accurately

 

 

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1report public information.
2    (b) The Chief Information Officer shall establish an open
3operating standard, to be known as "Illinois Open Data", for
4the State of Illinois. Under this open operating standard, each
5agency of State government under the jurisdiction of the
6Governor shall make available public data sets of public
7information. Any unit of local government may adopt the State
8standard for itself.
9    (c) To implement this Act, the Chief Information Officer
10shall, by rule, establish policies, standards, and guidance as
11provided herein. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is
12hereby expressly adopted and shall apply to all rulemaking by
13the Chief Information Officer under this Act.
14    In addition, the Chief Information Officer shall
15designate, with the approval of the Governor, a current
16employee of State government to act, in addition to his or her
17existing responsibilities, as the Deputy Chief Information
18Officer for Open Data.
 
19    Section 20. Function; protocol and compliance.
20    (a) Public data sets agencies make available on the
21Internet shall be accessible through a single web portal that
22is linked to data.illinois.gov or any successor website
23maintained by, or on behalf of, the State of Illinois. If an
24agency cannot make all such public data sets available on the
25single web portal, the agency shall report to the Chief

 

 

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1Information Officer the public data set or sets it is unable to
2make available, the reasons why it cannot do so, and the date
3by which the agency expects those data sets to be available on
4the single web portal.
5    (b) Public data sets shall be made available in accordance
6with technical standards published by the Chief Information
7Officer. The technical standards shall be determined by the
8Chief Information Officer, in consultation with the Deputy
9Chief Information Officer for Open Data, subject matter experts
10from all State agencies, and representatives of units of local
11government, not-for-profit organizations specializing in
12technology and innovation, the academic community, and other
13interested groups as designated by the Chief Information
14Officer.
15    Public data sets shall be provided in a format that permits
16automated processing and that makes use of appropriate
17technology to notify the public of all updates. The Chief
18Information Officer shall, by rule, establish appropriate
19policies, procedures, and protocols for the coordinated
20management of the State's information technology resources.
21With the approval of the Office of the Governor, the Chief
22Information Officer may designate one or more persons to
23comprise the staff of the Office of the Chief Information
24Officer in order to carry out the duties set forth in this Act.
25    Public data sets shall be updated as often as is necessary
26to preserve the integrity and usefulness of the data sets, to

 

 

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1the extent that the agency regularly maintains or updates the
2public data set.
3    Public data sets shall be made available without any
4registration requirement, license requirement, or restrictions
5on their use, except that the agency may require a third party
6providing to the public any public data set, or application
7utilizing such data set, to explicitly identify the source and
8version of the public data set and a description of any
9modifications made to such public data set. Registration
10requirements, license requirements, or restrictions as used in
11this Section shall not include measures designed or required to
12ensure access to public data sets, to protect the single
13website housing public data sets from unlawful abuse or
14attempts to damage or impair use of the website, or to analyze
15the types of data being used to improve service delivery.
16    Public data sets shall be accessible to external search
17capabilities.
18    (c) Within 60 days after the effective date of this Act,
19the Chief Information Officer shall prepare and publish: (1) a
20technical standards manual for the publishing of public data
21sets in raw or unprocessed form through a single web portal by
22State agencies for the purpose of making public data available
23to the greatest number of users and for the greatest number of
24applications and shall, whenever practicable, use open
25standards for web publishing and e-government; and (2) as
26needed, portfolio management policies for ensuring compliance

 

 

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1with the requirements of this Act.
2    The manual shall identify the reasons why each technical
3standard was selected and for which types of data it is
4applicable, and may recommend or require that data be published
5in more than one technical standard. The manual shall include a
6plan to adopt or utilize a web application programming
7interface that permits application programs to request and
8receive public data sets directly from the web portal. The
9manual and related policies may be updated as necessary.
10    (d) The Chief Information Officer shall consult with units
11of local government, not-for-profit organizations with a
12specialization in technology and innovation, agencies of other
13states, academic institutions, and voluntary consensus
14standards bodies, and, when such participation is feasible, in
15the public interest, and compatible with agency and
16departmental missions, authorities, and priorities,
17participate with such bodies in the development of technical
18and open standards.
19    (e) Within 120 days after the effective date of this Act,
20each State agency shall submit a compliance plan, together with
21a draft long-term strategic enterprise application plan
22consistent with this Act, to the Office of the Governor and
23shall make such plan available to the public on the
24data.illinois.gov web portal. Each State agency shall
25collaborate with the Governor's Office and the Chief
26Information Officer in formulating its plan. The plan shall

 

 

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1include:
2        (1) a summary description of public data sets under the
3    control of each State agency on or after the effective date
4    of this Act; and
5        (2) a summary explanation of how its plans, charters,
6    budgets, capital expenditures, contracts, and other
7    related documents and information for each information
8    technology and telecommunications project it proposes to
9    undertake can be utilized to support Illinois Open Data and
10    related savings and efficiencies.
11    The plan shall prioritize public data sets for inclusion on
12the single web portal on or before December 31, 2014, in
13accordance with the standards provided for in subsections (b)
14and (c) of this Section.
15    (f) For purposes of prioritizing public data sets, State
16agencies shall consider whether information embodied in the
17public data set:
18        (1) can be used to increase agency accountability and
19    responsiveness;
20        (2) improves public knowledge of the agency and its
21    operations;
22        (3) furthers the mission of the agency;
23        (4) creates economic opportunity;
24        (5) is received via the on-line forum for inclusion of
25    particular public data sets; or
26        (6) responds to a need or demand identified by public

 

 

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1    consultation.
2    (g) No later than July 1, 2014 and every July 1 thereafter,
3the Chief Information Officer shall post on the web portal an
4update of the compliance plan. Each update shall include the
5specific measures undertaken to make public data sets available
6on the single web portal since the immediately preceding
7update, specific measures that will be undertaken prior to the
8next update, an update to the list of public data sets if
9necessary, any changes to the prioritization of public data
10sets, and an update to the timeline for the inclusion of data
11sets on the single web portal if necessary.
12    (h) Consistent with both the Executive Order 10 (2010)
13directive requiring State agencies to limit information
14technology expenditures by increasing the use of cloud
15computing where appropriate, and with the initiatives and
16standards announced in the United States Department of Homeland
17Security publication "Federal Cloud Computing Strategy" dated
18February 8, 2011, all State agencies are required to evaluate
19safe, secure cloud computing options, before making any new
20information technology or telecommunications investments, and,
21if feasible, adopt appropriate cloud computing solutions. Each
22State agency shall re-evaluate its technology sourcing
23strategy to include consideration and use of cloud computing
24solutions as part of the budget process.
 
25    Section 25. Open data legal policies.

 

 

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1    (a) The Chief Information Officer shall conspicuously
2publish the open data legal policies contained in subsection
3(c) of this Section on the web portal.
4    (b) The Chief Information Officer may establish and
5maintain an on-line forum to solicit feedback from the public
6and to encourage public discussion on open data policies and
7public data set availability on the web portal.
8    (c) The use of the public data provided under this Act is
9subject to the following:
10        (1) Public data sets made available on the web portal
11    are provided for informational purposes only. The State
12    does not warrant the completeness, accuracy, content, or
13    fitness for any particular purpose or use of any public
14    data set made available on the web portal, nor are any such
15    warranties to be implied or inferred with respect to the
16    public data sets furnished under this Act.
17        (2) The State is not liable for any deficiencies in the
18    completeness, accuracy, content, or fitness for any
19    particular purpose or use of any public data set or any
20    third party application utilizing such data set.
21        (3) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to create a
22    private right of action to enforce its provisions.
23        (4) All public data sets shall be entirely in the
24    public domain for purposes of federal copyright law.
 
25    Section 30. General provisions.

 

 

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1    (a) To the extent that any Executive Order, Administrative
2Order, Intergovernmental or Interagency Agreement (to which
3the State of Illinois or one of its executive branch agencies
4is a party), or other policy, procedure, or protocol conflicts
5with, contradicts, or is inconsistent with any provision of
6this Act, that conflicting, contradicting, or inconsistent
7Order, Agreement, policy, procedure, or protocol is hereby
8expressly revoked, repealed, and superseded.
9    (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to contravene
10any State or federal law or any collective bargaining
11agreement.
12    (c) Executive Order 12-03 is superseded by this Act.
 
13    Section 35. Severability. The provisions of this Act are
14severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16becoming law.".