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SAM - Chapter 4800
4819.32 EXCLUSIONS
(Revised 6/03)
For purposes of the IT Project Submittal and Approval Policy, the following are excluded from State Administrative Manual (SAM) Section 4819.3, which defines State information management authority and responsibility for IT projects:
- The SAM Section 4819.3 shall apply to all State departments, offices, boards, commissions, institutions, and special organizational entities except the University of California, the California State University, the State Compensation Insurance Fund, community college districts, agencies provided by Article VI of the Constitution, or the Legislature.
- Information technology activities directly associated with single-function process-control systems (such as those applied in the controlling of water gates, traffic signals, or environmental systems for buildings), analog data collection devices, or telemetry systems are excluded from SAM Section 4819.3. Process Control, for the purposes of the exclusions from Finance project approval and oversight, includes automated processing systems that monitor and control the operation of a single function system, and that can perform that control in isolation from other systems. Examples may include all components necessary to monitor and control the traffic lights at an intersection, the position of water restriction and diversion components in a water supply and distribution system, or to adjust the behavior of a motorized conveyer in response to changes in load and demand.
Sensors, telemetry devices, functional components such as motors or traffic lights, electronic control processors, and the network system that connects those devices into a single-function process control system meet the process control system exclusion.
Process control should not be interpreted to include information processing and network systems in which data is gathered, stored, transmitted, processed, analyzed, displayed, printed or reported for purposes other than the direct, automatic monitoring and controlling of a single function system, or for the manual review of the performance and activities of that single system.
Any component that may be added to any process control system, such as additional sensors, processing capacity or network communications capability, that is necessary for use in conjunction with a current or planned information technology system must be included in all feasibility study reports, plans, proposals and budget estimates for the information technology system.
- Acquisition of telecommunications equipment used exclusively for voice or video communications are excluded from SAM Section 4819.3. This exclusion does not apply to:
- Voice systems that include the use of interactive databases.
- Videoconferncing systems that include the tranmission of sensitive data or the use of interactive databases.
- Acquisition of electronic typewriters and copiers are excluded if they are NOT:
- Capable of general purpose computing; or
- Intended to be used as an input/output peripheral device to a computer system.
- Acquisition of the following consumable items or office equipment necessary to support approved information technology activities and personnel are excluded
- Documents (such as standards and procedures manuals, vendor-supplied systems documentation, and educational training manuals);
- Equipment supplies (such as printer forms, disk packs, "floppy" disks, compact disks, magnetic tape, and printer ribbons or cartridges); and,
- Furniture (such as terminal tables and printer stands).
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