2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 9 - Executive Department › Article 27 - Department of Information Technology › Section 9-27-20 - Telecommunications; duties.

A. The department shall enter into necessary agreements to provide, where feasible, a telecommunication network and related facilities to all executive, legislative and judicial branches and may, when capacity exists and it is economical, provide a telecommunication network and related facilities to educational institutions and other entities, with a preference to public entities.
B. The department may, in compliance with the Procurement Code [13-1-28 to 13-1-199 NMSA 1978], establish price agreements with vendors for information technology goods and services. Any public body may directly procure goods or services offered under a department-placed price agreement other than a price agreement for an enterprise service administered by the department.
C. On July 1, 2023, and on July 1 of each subsequent year, the department shall provide a catalog listing the information technology goods and services it has available to offer with the approved rates.
D. Subject to capacity after meeting requirements of agency customers, the department may offer catalog goods and services to non-agency customers. The department may require a non-agency customer to comply with all rules and guidance applicable to the department-provided good or service but shall not require a non-agency customer to comply with any other law administered by the department unless otherwise provided by law.
History:
Laws 1963, ch. 181, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 6-1-24; Laws 1965, ch. 225, § 1; 1977, ch. 247, § 61; 1978, ch. 124, § 11; 1980, ch. 151, § 17; 1983, ch. 301, § 57; 2007, ch. 288, § 3; 2007, ch. 290, § 20; 1978 Comp., § 15-5-1, recompiled as § 9-27-20 by Laws 2009, ch. 146, § 10; 2017, ch. 7, § 3; repealed and reenacted by Laws 2023, ch. 132, § 5.
ANNOTATIONS
Repeals and reenactments.
— Laws 2023, ch. 132, § 5 repealed former 9-27-20 NMSA 1978 and enacted a new section, effective July 1, 2023.
Repeals.
— Laws 2017, ch. 7, § 10, repealed Laws 2007, ch. 888 [288], § 3, effective June 16, 2017.
The 2017 amendment,
effective June 16, 2017, required the department of information technology to enter into the necessary agreements to provide a telecommunication network to all executive, legislative and judicial branches, allowed the department to provide a telecommunication network to educational institutions that request to be included in the network, required the department of information technology and the public education department to apply for federal reimbursements for telecommunication network services, and required the department of information technology to establish a rate structure and to charge participants in the telecommunication network according to that rate structure; after the heading, added the subsection designation "A" to the first paragraph of the section; in Subsection A, after "The department", deleted "of information technology", after "where feasible, a", deleted "central telephone system, including wide-area telephone service" and added "telecommunication network", after "the provision of a", deleted "central telephone system" and added "telecommunication network"; and added new Subsections B, C, and D.
The 2007 amendment,
effective July 1, 2007, required the department of information technology to enter into agreements to provide a central telephone system for state governmental branches, except for political subdivisions of the state.