AN ACT CONCERNING COMPUTER SOFTWARE PURCHASED BY STATE AGENCIES.


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 5299*
*January Session, 2007*		LCO No. 782

Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
REP. O'BRIEN, 24th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING COMPUTER SOFTWARE PURCHASED BY STATE AGENCIES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to require state agencies to consider the availability of open source code software when purchasing, licensing or procuring computer software, as an alternative to proprietary software, based upon a comparison of costs and quality standards.

Statement of Purpose:

To require state agencies to consider the use of open source code software as an alternative to the use of proprietary software.