Bill Text: OR HB2320 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to electronic document formats.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2320 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB2320-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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LC 1651

                         House Bill 2320

Sponsored by Representative BARNHART; Representatives READ, J
  SMITH (Presession filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires that state agency making documents available in
electronic form make documents available in formats used by two
most commonly used proprietary operating systems and most
commonly used nonproprietary operating system.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to electronic document formats.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) At least once every two years, the Oregon
Department of Administrative Services shall determine the
approximate number of desktop and laptop computers in the United
States using proprietary and nonproprietary operating systems,
and the relative percentage of each operating system compared to
all operating systems in use on desktop and laptop computers in
the United States. Based on the determinations made under this
subsection, the department shall identify the most commonly used
proprietary and nonproprietary operating systems used on desktop
and laptop computers.
  (2) Whenever a state agency makes a document available in
electronic form, the document must be made available in
electronic document formats used by programs running on at least
the two most commonly used proprietary operating systems, and
programs running on the most commonly used nonproprietary
operating system, as determined by the department under
subsection (1) of this section. + }
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