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Senate committee backs bill requiring counties’ public data in usable formats after vendor testimony
Summary
The committee passed House Bill 18‑84 as amended to require counties (or their contractors) to provide public records in common file formats that preserve usability but do not disclose proprietary code; vendors and technologists urged caution and additional stakeholder review, while sponsors said the data belongs to counties.
The Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee voted to pass House Bill 18‑84 as amended after a lengthy debate over whether counties and third‑party record providers must deliver public records in usable, common file formats.
The bill’s sponsor told the committee the measure is limited to county-owned data subject to public‑records law and aims to make those extracts usable for requesters. “This data belongs to the counties, and it should be available to those that want to see it in a usable format,” the sponsor said.
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