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Sponsor seeks study committee to inventory machine-readable government data
Summary
Representative Corcoran proposed HB 598 to create a study commission to inventory existing agency data and identify low-cost, machine-readable datasets agencies could publish. Committee members discussed scope, confidentiality protections and membership; an amendment to extend reporting and remove senate slots was discussed but not finalized.
Representative Corcoran told the committee House Bill 598 would create a bipartisan study commission to identify existing government data that can be published in machine-readable formats at low cost, and to recommend a set of initial metrics for regular publication.
Corcoran framed the bill as a pragmatic effort to expose low-cost, already-collected data such as police NIBRS submissions, Department of Education statistics and agency KPIs so citizens and policymakers can query performance trends more easily.…
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