Kansas SB51: House Substitute for SB 51 by Committee on Legislative Modernization - Authorizing the chief information security officer to receive audit reports, updating statutes related to services provided by the chief information technology officer and authorizing the office of information technology services to provide certain services to political subdivisions and hospitals

What the bill says

An act concerning information technology; relating to services provided by the chief information technology officer; authorizing the chief information security officer to receive audit reports; authorizing the office of information technology services to provide certain services to political subdivisions and hospitals; amending K.S.A. 461135, 75-4704, 75-4705, 75-4709 and 75-4714 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 75-7205 and repealing the existing sections. New.

From the enrolled text, April 10, 2026:

AN ACT concerning information technology; relating to services provided by the chief information technology officer; authorizing the chief information security officer to receive audit reports; authorizing the office of information technology services to provide certain services to political subdivisions and hospitals; amending K.S.A. 461135, 75-4704, 75-4705, 75-4709 and 75-4714 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 75-7205 and repealing the existing sections. New Section 1. (a) The executive chief information technology officer may enter into an agreement with an entity to extend to such entity the use of state information technology or cybersecurity services under the control of the executive chief information technology officer. (b) As used in this section, "entity" means: (1) Any governmental unit, including, but not limited to, any state agency, taxing subdivision of the state or municipality; or (2) any hospital or nonprofit corporation that the executive chief information technology officer determines is performing any state function on an ongoing basis through agreement or otherwise or any function that will assist a governmental unit in attaining an objective or goal. Sec. 2. K.S.A. 46-1135 is hereby amended to read as follows: 461135. (a) The legislative division of post audit shall conduct information technology audits as directed by the legislative post audit committee. Audit work performed under this section may include: (1) Assessment of security practices of information technology systems …