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5.2       e-Filing Strategy

The JCIT strategy ^[2] for the e-Filing Project shall include the following:

• Coordinate with TexasOnline in the role of “advisor” for electronic filing, including establishing policies, guidelines, and standards. 
  
  
• Identify to TexasOnline the requirement for JCIT to:
  • Establish document standards.
  • Establish data interface standards.
  • Establish statewide rules.
  • Define requirements for state and local fees and state profit sharing.
  • Allow counties to establish fees and revenue/profit-sharing terms with TexasOnline/KPMG Consulting
  • Consulting through individual service level agreements.
  • Approve TexasOnline/KPMG Consulting electronic filing project manager
    
    
• Identify to TexasOnline the requirement for TexasOnline/KPMG Consulting to:
  • Fund and deliver APIs for required case management system software, including document format interfaces and transmission envelope data using approved standards (such as pdf and LegalXML), as part of service level agreements.
  • Install connectivity to courts and clerks as required.
  • Establish a single electronic filing manager (EFM).
  • Provide an open architecture that allows filers to use any electronic filing service provider (EFSP) that meets JCIT standards and coordinate the interface with each EFSP as required.
  • Collect and disburse state and local fees as authorized by law.
  • Use only those standards approved by JCIT.
  • Adhere to rules of the courts.
  • Agree that all case filing data filed through the EFM are owned by the respective court and may not be sold, released, or otherwise shared by TexasOnline/KPMG Consulting without written approval of the court.
  • Submit project manager candidates to JCIT for approval.
  • Not assess filing fees for government filers, including but not limited to district and county attorneys, the Office of the Attorney General, and public defenders

·        Coordinate, through the Standards Subcommittee, with selected stakeholders to develop and recommend draft rules.

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² Excerpt from Judicial Committee on Information Technology, Electronic Filing Strategy, adopted December 14, 2001, amended March 12, 2002, URL: http://www.courts.state.tx.us/jcit/standards/Efiling/AdoptedStrategyforElectronicFiling14DEC01amended12MA….pdf