Committee advances HB2270 to expand CTO/CISO authorities, add cloud services and telecom controls; judicial branch seeks carve‑outs

House Bill 2,270, which would authorize the chief information security officer to receive audit reports and modernize multiple IT statutes, was heard and advanced by the Committee on Legislative Modernization.

What the bill does: the reviser summarized that HB2270 would amend several Kansas statutes (KSA 46‑11‑35; KSA 75‑47‑04; KSA 75‑47‑05; KSA 75‑47‑09; KSA 75‑47‑10; KSA 75‑72‑05) to add cloud services to the Office of Information Technology Services’ responsibilities, require infrastructure/platform-as-a-service to be performed through OITS, register software‑as‑a‑service applications, and require executive branch CTO approval for purchases of central processing units or distributed computing equipment costing $75,000 or more. The bill would also state that the executive branch CTO controls acquisition, retention and use of telecommunications equipment and software, with a limited carve‑out allowing agencies to…