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Bill to codify tribal data sovereignty and exempt tribal health data prompts support and open‑government concerns
Summary
House Bill 26 85 would require state agencies to apply tribal data sovereignty principles, direct disease reporting to tribal health jurisdictions, and exempt tribal data from public disclosure; tribal leaders urged passage while open‑government advocates warned the PRA exemption may be too broad.
The committee heard testimony on House Bill 26 85, which would require state agencies that handle tribal data to apply tribal data sovereignty principles, direct the State Board of Health to require reporting of notifiable conditions to tribal health jurisdictions, and exempt tribal data held by certain state agencies or local health jurisdictions from disclosure under the Public Records Act.
Representative Deborah Lekanoff, the prime sponsor, said the bill codifies eight tribal data sovereignty principles approved by the governor’s Indian Health Advisory Council and was prompted by…
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