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Data-warehouse bill fails in committee amid privacy concerns; then tabled
Summary
House Bill 890, directing the criminal justice data warehouse to perform specified tasks, failed in voice vote after DOJ and DOC expressed opposition; the committee immediately moved to table the bill.
The Senate Judiciary committee voted down House Bill 890 after state law-enforcement agencies raised concerns about how the bill would operate and the handling of confidential criminal-justice data.
Chair Usher described HB 890 as Representative Mercer’s bill directing the criminal justice data warehouse to carry out certain responsibilities. He reported that the Department of Justice and Department of Corrections were recorded as opponents and that both agencies already place their data in the commercial cloud platform Snowflake. The chair said confidentiality issues are typically addressed when data is sent out (the outflow), not on initial input.
After a voice vote in which a senator opposed the bill, the chair announced the motion failed. Senator Ricky then moved to table HB 890; the committee ordered the bill tabled without objection.
Committee records in the transcript note opposition from DOJ and DOC and an informational presentation from Border Crime Control and the Department of Corrections; no formal roll-call was recorded in committee.
