(1) There is created the Electronic Government Portal Advisory Board consisting of 13 members appointed as follows:

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(a) The President of the Senate shall appoint two nonvoting members from among members of the Senate.

(b) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint two nonvoting members from among members of the House of Representatives.

(c) The Governor shall appoint:

(A) Three members who represent state agencies;

(B) Two members who represent the public; and

(C) One member who attends a school, community college or university in this state.

(d) The State Chief Information Officer shall appoint two members as follows:

(A) A representative of the State Chief Information Officer; and

(B) A representative of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services.

(e) The State Treasurer shall appoint one member who represents the State Treasurer.

(2) Members of the Legislative Assembly who are members of the advisory board are nonvoting members and may act only in an advisory capacity.

(3) The advisory board shall:

(a) Advise the State Chief Information Officer and the Oregon Department of Administrative Services concerning:

(A) The development of electronic government portals for the State Chief Information Officer, the department and other state agencies;

(B) The amount, collection methods or other aspects of a portal provider fee that the State Chief Information Officer or an electronic government portal provider collects;

(C) The priority of new governmental service applications that may be provided by means of an electronic government portal;

(D) Terms and conditions of contracts between state agencies and electronic government portal providers; and

(E) Rules necessary to implement electronic government portals.

(b) Monitor the layout, content and usability of electronic government portals and advise the State Chief Information Officer and the department on ways to improve the delivery of government services by means of electronic government portals, the accountability of state agencies’ use of electronic government portals to provide government services and user satisfaction with electronic government portals.

(c) Study, propose, develop or coordinate activities that:

(A) Consider the needs of residents of this state;

(B) Evaluate the performance and transparency of state agency delivery of government services; and

(C) Further the effectiveness of and user satisfaction with:

(i) Electronic government portals; and

(ii) State agencies’ performance and accountability in using electronic government portals to provide government services.

(4) A majority of the voting members of the advisory board constitutes a quorum for transacting business.

(5) A majority of the voting members of the advisory board must approve official action by the advisory board.

(6) The advisory board shall elect one of the members of the advisory board to serve as chairperson.

(7) If a vacancy on the advisory board occurs for any cause, the appointing authority shall make an appointment that becomes immediately effective.

(8) The advisory board shall meet at times and places that the chairperson or a majority of the voting members of the advisory board specifies.

(9) The advisory board may adopt rules necessary to operate the advisory board.

(10) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall provide staff support to the advisory board.

(11) Members of the advisory board who are not members of the Legislative Assembly may not receive compensation, but may be reimbursed for actual and necessary travel and other expenses the members incur in the performance of the members’ official duties in the manner and amounts provided for in ORS § 292.495. Claims for expenses the members incur in performing functions of the advisory board shall be paid out of funds appropriated to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for purposes of the advisory board.

(12) All state agencies shall assist the advisory board in the advisory board’s performance of the advisory board’s duties and, to the extent permitted by laws relating to confidentiality, to furnish information and advice as the members of the advisory board consider necessary to perform the duties of the advisory board. [Formerly 182.128]