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Senate committee backs bill to create cross‑agency data‑sharing task force
Summary
The Senate subcommittee advanced legislation to create a state task force to combine agency data for policy and budget decisions, proponents said, to reduce siloed operations and identify funding needs. Committee members sought assurances the work won’t duplicate existing panels.
Senators on the State Agencies & Governmental Affairs subcommittee voted to advance Senate Bill 656, which would create a data‑sharing and data‑driven decisionmaking task force to coordinate information across state agencies.
Senator English introduced the measure and asked Chief Privacy Officer Jennifer Davis to explain the proposal. Davis said the task force’s job would be to “figure out what we need to do to make that happen,” including…
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