An Act
ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 924 By: Treat of the Senate
and
Boatman and Phillips of the
House
An Act relating to sharing of state data; creating
definition; stating ownership of state data;
requiring state agencies to comply with statutory
obligations; authorizing the Office of Management and
Enterprise Services to promulgate rules to establish
certain standards; authorizing the sharing of data
between state agencies upon request; requiring
submission of specified information on certain form;
requiring the Office of Management and Enterprise
Services to grant or deny request; providing that
certain powers are in addition to existing powers;
requiring compliance with certain laws; providing
exceptions; providing for codification; and providing
an effective date.
SUBJECT: State data sharing
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 34.210 of Title 62, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section, “state data” means all data files
hosted, procured, owned , processed, secured, stored, or created by
this state or its state agencies, while in the course of state
business and shall include any and all data not otherwise prohibited
from such classification or required to be kept confidential by
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state or federal law. Such data shall be the property of this state
unless prohibited by law .
B. While this state is the owner of state data, individual
state agencies shall comply with their respective statutory
obligations in managing state data including responding t o open
records requests, reporting and responding to data breaches , and any
other statutory obligations required when hosting, accessing,
storing, collecting, or processing state data.
C. The Chief Information Officer for the State of Oklahoma may
establish standards and criteria for sharing state data between state
agencies. Agency requests to share state data shall be denied if the
stated purpose does not meet the established standards and criteria
for sharing state data as established by the CIO. State agencies may
decline requests to share state data if the state data requested is
otherwise privileged, required to be kept confidential, or prohibited
from being shared by state or federal law.
D. The powers provided in this section shall be in addition to
and not in substitution for any powers provided to the Office of
Management and Enterprise Services or the Chief Information Officer by
rule or law.
E. No powers provide d in this section shall exempt or supersede
a state agency’s statutory responsibil ity to protect data and to
comply with requirements of the Oklahoma Open Records Act or
applicable state or federal law.
F. The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to
the judicial department of state government or any entity organized
within the judicial department and shall not be applicable to the
legislative department or any entity organ ized within the
legislative department.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective Nove mber 1, 2022.
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Passed the Senate the 19th day of May, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
Passed the House of Representatives the 20th day of May, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this _______ _____________
day of _________________ __, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _______________________________ __
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _____ ____
day of _________________ __, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this _______ ___
day of __________________, 20 _______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _______________________________ __