(a) The executive director shall prepare a state strategic plan for information resources management for the board’s review and approval.
(b) In preparing the state strategic plan, the executive director shall assess and report on:
(1) practices of state agencies regarding information resources management, including interagency and interbranch communication and interagency resource sharing;
(2) current and future information resources management technologies and practices and their potential application to state government;
(3) return on investment guidelines established by the department to help state agencies to implement major information resources projects more effectively; and
(4) any issue the department determines is relevant to the development of the state strategic plan.

(c) Each state agency shall cooperate with the executive director in providing information that will enable the executive director to assess agency practices.
(d) The executive director shall appoint an advisory committee to assist in the preparation of the state strategic plan. The members of the advisory committee appointed by the executive director must be approved by the board and must include officers or employees of state government.
(e) Repealed by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1422, Sec. 4.30, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.