MODERNIZE MARYLAND COMMISSION

Patrick C. Mulford, Chair (chosen by Commission)
Kenneth Kurz, Vice-Chair (chosen by Commission)

Appointed by Governor: Mark A. Cather, Esq.; Lance A. Cleghorn; Andrew Drummand; Kenneth W. Hiavacek; Stanley L. Lofton; D. Michael Piercy, Jr.; Gregory S. Rogers; Manoj Srivastava.

Ex officio: Patrick C. Mulford, designee of Secretary of Information Technology; James L. Saunders, Acting State Chief Information Security Officer.

Ex officio (nonvoting): Katie Fry Hester, Senate Chair, & Anne R. Kaiser, House Chair, Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, & Biosecurity.

Staff: Sara M. Elalamy

c/o Office of Secretary, Department of Information Technology
100 Community Place, Crownsville, MD 21032
(667) 644-1399
e-mail: saram.elalamy@maryland.gov

Annual Report to Senate Budget & Taxation Committee, Senate Education, Health & Environmental Affairs Committee, House Appropriations Committee, House Health & Government Operations Committee, & Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, & Biotechnology.

In May 2022, the General Assembly authorized creation of the Modernize Maryland Oversight Commission (Chapter 243, Acts of 2022), and renamed it the Modernize Maryland Commission in July 2024 (Chapter 497, Acts of 2024).

The Commission charge was to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information held by the State concerning Maryland residents. To this end, the Commission advised the Secretary of Information Technology, and the State Chief Information Security Officer on: information technology and cybersecurity investments and upgrades; funding sources for these upgrades; and future mechanisms for the procurement of such upgrades, including ways to increase the efficiency of such procurements.

Commission members were appointed by the Governor. Two members served ex officio. The Co-Chairs of the Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Biotechnology served as advisory, nonvoting members (Code State Finance & Procurement Article, sec. 3.5-316).

Authorization for the Commission was repealed by the General Assembly in June 2025 (Chapter 846, Acts of 2025).

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