Statutes

Reissued Revised Statutes of Nebraska, 1943, Section 86 

Section.
86-569. Findings and intent.
86-570. Geographic Information System Steering Committee; created; members; appointment; terms; expenses.
86-571. Committee; officers; advisory committees; meetings.
86-572. Committee; duties.
86-573. Committee; report. 

86-569 Findings and intent.

(1) The Legislature finds that the Geographic Information System is a computer-based technology that captures, stores, analyzes, and displays information about the earth's surface from a geographically referenced system, that an interest in the system is rapidly increasing at all levels of government, and that an institutional mechanism is needed to encourage initiatives, coordinate efforts, avoid duplication, seek efficiencies, develop guidelines, policies, and standards for operations and management, promote education and training, and make recommendations so that such technology will benefit the entire state and endure as an analysis tool for decisionmakers.

(2) The Intergovernmental Data Communications Advisory Council has found that there are many levels of experience, expertise, and hardware and software sophistication among the various levels of government and that guidelines, policies, coordination, and standards are required to realize the maximum benefits of this technology, avoid data quality problems, and resolve conflicts at a reasonable cost for the state.

(3)  It is the intent of the Legislature that a Geographic Information System Steering Committee be created with statewide responsibilities to take an active role in implementing the Geographic Information System. Such committee would help facilitate acquisition of such technology at all levels of government and make recommendations to the Legislature for program initiatives and funding and the fostering of communication, training, and education.

86-570. Geographic Information System Steering Committee; created; members; appointment; terms; expenses. 

(1) The Geographic Information System Steering Committee is hereby created and shall consist of nineteen members as follows: 

(a) The Chief Information Officer or his or her designee and the director or designee of the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Conservation and Survey Division of the University of Nebraska, the Department of Natural Resources, and the Governor's Policy Research Office;

(b) The Director-State Engineer or designee;

(c) The State Surveyor or designee;

(d) The Clerk of the Legislature or designee;

(e) The secretary of the Game and Parks Commission or designee;

(f) The Property Tax Administrator or designee;

(g) One representative of federal agencies appointed by the Governor;

(h) One representative of the natural resources districts nominated by the Nebraska Association of Resources Districts and appointed by the Governor;

(i) One representative of the public power districts appointed by the Governor;

(j) Two representatives of the counties nominated by the Nebraska Association of County Officials and appointed by the Governor;

(k) One representative of the municipalities nominated by the League of Nebraska Municipalities and appointed by the Governor; and

(l) Two members at large appointed by the Governor.

(2) The appointed members shall serve for terms of four years, except that of the initial members appointed by the Governor, one of the representatives of the counties shall be appointed for one year and the other shall be appointed for three years, one of the members at large shall be appointed for one year and the other for three years, and the representative of the public power districts shall be appointed for two years. Their successors shall be appointed for four-year terms. Any vacancy on the committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment, and the person selected to fill such vacancy shall have the same qualifications as the member whose vacancy is being filled.

(3) The members shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses as provided in sections 81-1174 to 81-1177.

86-571. Committee; officers; advisory committees; meetings.  

(1) The Geographic Information System Steering Committee shall elect a chairperson from its membership and such other officers as the committee deems necessary. 

(2) As the need arises, advisory committees may be established by the committee from various levels of government, industry, or the general public to assist the committee. The members of advisory committees shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses as provided in sections 81-1174 to 81-1177.

(3) The committee shall meet quarterly or upon the call of the chairperson.

86-572. Committee; duties.

The Geographic Information System Steering Committee shall:

(1) Make recommendations to the Legislature for program initiatives and funding;

(2) Establish guidelines and policies for statewide Geographic Information System operations and management to include:

(a) The acquisition, development, maintenance, quality assurance such as quality control standards, access, ownership, cost recovery, and priorities of data bases;

(b) The compatibility, acquisition, and communications of hardware and software;

(c) The assessment of needs, identification of scope, setting of standards, and determination of an appropriate enforcement mechanism;

(d) The fostering of training programs and promoting education and information about the Geographic Information System; and

(e) The promoting of the Geographic Information System development in the State of Nebraska and providing or coordinating additional support to address Geographic Information System issues as such issues arise.

(3) Report to, assist, and advise the Chief Information Officer in setting information technology policy; and

(4) Provide assistance as requested by the Nebraska Information Technology Commission to support the technical panel created in section 86-521.

86-573. Committee; report.

Annually, the chairperson of the Geographic Information System Steering Committee shall submit a written report, approved by the committee, to the Governor and the Clerk of the Legislature and shall send a copy of such report to the Intergovernmental Data Communications Advisory Council.