J_JTC_2023A 10/23/2023 09:09:17 AM Committee Summary

PUBLIC
STAFF SUMMARY OF MEETING
JOINT COMMITTEE COMMITTEE ON JOINT TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE

Date

10/23/2023

Attendance
Baisley	X
Hansen	X
Parenti	X
Weinberg	E
Titone	X
Priola	X

Time

09:09:17 AM to 11:03:22 AM

Place

SCR 352

This Meeting was called to order by

Priola

This Report was prepared by

Samantha Falco

Hearing Items	Action Taken
hDiscussion with Department of Public Safety	Committee Discussion Only
hDiscussion of Legislation	Committee Discussion Only

09:09:20 AM

Manish Jani, Deputy Director, Natalie Mullis, Director, and Kevin Smith, IT manager, with Legislative Information Services (LIS) presented on updates for selecting a new email vendor. Mr. Jani gave information on the current process of changing the email enterprise system to a cloud based enterprise email system as well as the challenges that are included.

09:16:54 AM

Mr. Jani spoke about why the change is needed for the emails, accessibility concerns and requirements, transitioning to a new system, and deciding if the best move is between Microsoft 365 and Google Workplace Enterprises. Mr. Jani encouraged the legislators to make a recommendation in December and participate in giving feedback.

09:19:52 AM

The committee asked about the implications of switching email servers and having to use their entire workplace suite of products, criteria in evaluations, current licensing, and why aides are not considered staff. Questions continued regarding participating in user testing, connecting and forwarding to personal emails, transition to new system, side by side comparisons, and what other states are using.

09:42:57 AM

The committee continued to ask questions regarding executive branch using Google Suite products. Senator Baisley made comments on his preference and hesitation in exclusively using a product. Rep. Titone asked what will happen with Zoom when switching emails. Senator Hansen asked what the core issue is behind switching emails.

09:56:01 AM

Annabelle Tracy,
Senior Accessibility Analyst, gave a presentation to update the committee
on accessibility.

09:57:10 AM

Ms. Tracy's presentation included an introduction of accessibility and its importance, strategy and plan of action to make Colorado accessible, and progress towards accessibility.

10:16:59 AM

The committee asked
questions regarding accessibility. The committee thanked Ms. Tracy for
her work.

10:19:04 AM

The committee took a brief recess,

Discussion with Department of Public Safety - Committee Discussion Only

10:32:30 AM

Joel Malecks, Legislative
Liaison, Kevin Klein, Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management,
and Peter Bangas, Public Safety Communications Network Management, with
the Department of Public Safety gave an overview of the Digital Trunked
Radio System. Mr. Bangas gave continued with the overview of the system.

10:36:25 AM

The committee asked
questions about low cost hacking tools being used to clone radios. Mr.
Malecka spoke about why this is important to the committee and Section
18-9-309(4), C.R.S. which might be a topic of legislation for the committee.
The committee asked questions regarding cloning equipment and interfering
with emergency services. Rep Titone asked questions regarding what potential
legislation might include.

10:49:17 AM	Motion	Authorize the drafting of a bill to address the concerns discussed regarding Digital Trunked Radio Systems..
	Moved	Titone
	Seconded

	Baisley	Yes
	Hansen	Yes
	Parenti	Yes
	Weinberg	Excused
	Titone	Yes
	Priola	Yes
		YES: 5 NO: 0 EXC: 1 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS

10:49:18 AM

The committee decided the legislation will be drafted by the December meetings.

10:49:47 AM

Vanessa Reilly, Legislative Council Staff, gave an update to the committee on IT Capital budget requests, and the December meetings.

Discussion of Legislation - Committee Discussion Only


	10:53:38 AM	Nicole Meyers, Office of Legislative Legal Services, gave an update on the previously requested bills being still in the drafting process.
	10:55:16 AM	Emil Haddoway, Colorado Department of Transportation legislative liaison, and Michael McReynolds, Office of Information Technology (OIT) legislative liaison, gave an update as main stakehoders to the previously mentioned proposed legislation. The committee asked questions regarding proceeding with drafting.
	11:01:28 AM	Rep. Parenti mentioned another topic of possible draft legislation regarding traffic incident reporting that may be addressed in a future meeting.

11:03:22 AM

The committee adjourned.

Discussion with Department of Public Safety - Committee Discussion Only

Discussion of Legislation - Committee Discussion Only

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