                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 2.2-2006)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Commonwealth information technology project&#8221; means any state
agency information technology project that is under Commonwealth governance and
oversight.
		&#8220;Commonwealth Project Management Standard&#8221; means a document
developed and adopted by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) pursuant to §
2.2-2016.1 that describes the methodology for conducting information technology
projects, and the governance and oversight used to ensure project success.
		&#8220;Confidential data&#8221; means information made confidential by federal
or state law that is maintained in an electronic format.
		&#8220;Enterprise&#8221; means an organization with common or unifying
business interests. An enterprise may be defined at the Commonwealth level or
secretariat level for program and project integration within the Commonwealth,
secretariats, or multiple agencies.
		&#8220;Executive branch agency&#8221; or &#8220;agency&#8221; means any
agency, institution, board, bureau, commission, council, public institution of
higher education, or instrumentality of state government in the executive
department listed in the appropriation act. However, &#8220;executive branch
agency&#8221; or &#8220;agency&#8221; does not include the University of
Virginia Medical Center, a public institution of higher education to the extent
exempt from this chapter pursuant to the Restructured Higher Education Financial
and Administrative Operations Act (§ 23.1-1000 et seq.) or other law, or the
Virginia Port Authority.
		&#8220;Information technology&#8221; means communications, telecommunications,
automated data processing, applications, databases, data networks, the Internet,
management information systems, and related information, equipment, goods, and
services. The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to hamper the
pursuit of the missions of the institutions in instruction and research.
		&#8220;ITAC&#8221; means the Information Technology Advisory Council created
in § 2.2-2699.5.
		&#8220;Major information technology project&#8221; means any Commonwealth
information technology project that has a total estimated cost of more than $1
million or that has been designated a major information technology project by
the CIO pursuant to the Commonwealth Project Management Standard developed under
§ 2.2-2016.1.
		&#8220;Secretary&#8221; means the Secretary of Administration.
		&#8220;Technology asset&#8221; means hardware and communications equipment not
classified as traditional mainframe-based items, including personal computers,
mobile computers, and other devices capable of storing and manipulating
electronic data.
		&#8220;Telecommunications&#8221; means any origination, transmission,
emission, or reception of data, signs, signals, writings, images, and sounds or
intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, television, optical, or other
electromagnetic systems.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 746, § 2.1-563.13; 1997, c. 858; 2001, c. 844, § 2.2-1301;
2003, cc. 981, 1021; 2004, c. 145; 2007, c. 769; 2010, cc. 136, 145; 2011, c.
739; 2012, cc. 803, 835; 2014, cc. 37, 181; 2015, c. 768; 2016, c. 296; 2020, c.
738.