Data task force urges statewide data-sharing tools as Senate bill advances

At a Data Task Force meeting, staff from Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) and state agency representatives discussed how a proposed statewide data-sharing and governance working group created by Senate Bill 742 should operate, who it should cover and how enforcement would work, while noting that some requested data-governance tools were included in a recent House draft budget.

The discussion centered on three linked questions: which agencies and data the guidelines should cover, which authority should enforce them, and whether ETS should provide shared tools (a master data management platform, a data-governance tool, a geospatial platform and AI governance tooling) that departments would use while retaining ownership of their own data.

"We want to make sure that they're in solid before we roll them out," Rebecca (Data Task Force staff, Enterprise Technology Services) said of seven draft guidelines under review by the CIO, the controller and the attorney general. She said the drafts remain under review and that the group needs to clarify whether the guidelines should be ETS documents or products of the Data Task Force, and how review and enforcement should proceed.

Rebecca also told members the draft House budget (House draft 1 of House Bill 300) included funding for several tools the task force requested: a data-governance tool, a master data-management tool, an…