STAND. COM. REP. NO. 924

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 811

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 811, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEMOGRAPHIC DATA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide for more accurate demographic data processing by the State.

More specifically, this measure:

(1) Requires state agencies, boards, and commissions to use certain demographic data categories and tabulations;

(2) Requires the Department of Health, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Human Services, and each county police department to make certain disaggregated data available to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Office of Health Equity, and general public; and

(3) Establishes a task force on twenty-first century data governance to assess the current data collection, processing, retention, and sharing procedures; needs; and challenges across state agencies.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Filipinos for Affirmative Action, Hawaii Coalition for Immigrant Rights, and four individuals.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Education, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Friends of Civil Rights, and Papa Ola Lokahi.

Your Committee finds that using separate collection categories and tabulations for demographic data on Native Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Islander groups will ensure that the data is collected by the State in a manner that accurately represents the diversity of these communities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying the task force on twenty-first century data governance's subject matter scope;

(2) Inserting a dissolution date of June 30, 2024, for the task force; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 811, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 811, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair