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Committee hears privacy and purpose concerns on veterans registry (H.93); agrees to keep bill standalone
Summary
Testimony from the state’s chief data officer and the Director of Veterans Affairs flagged privacy, scope and cost questions around H.93 (a veterans registry). The committee broadly agreed to keep the proposal as a standalone bill for further refinement before any appropriation.
Lawmakers on the Government Operations & Military Affairs committee took detailed testimony and discussed H.93, a proposal to create and maintain a veterans database for Vermont, and agreed the measure should stay a standalone bill while staff refine scope and privacy protections.
Josiah Raish, the state’s chief data and AI officer in the Agency of Digital Services, told the committee that new registries present two central questions: how to protect the data and whether the dataset could be repurposed beyond its original intent. Raish warned an…
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