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This bill establishes a statewide Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance and Decision Intelligence Center within the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, motivated by the need to break down data silos and improve inter-agency data particularly highlighted by challenges during the Maui wilwildfire response. The center will be responsible for facilitating data sharing across state agencies through a statewide memorandum of understanding, implementing secure tools and platforms, data AI governance, developing a master management citizen record, managing an integrated data and AI platform, and supporting evidence-based decision-making. The bill appropriates funding for eight new full-time staff ranging from data quality and privacy specialists to data scientists and AI architects, with each position funded between $70,000 and $120,000. Key definitions in the bill include "data and governance" intelligence as the process of creating policies to ensure data quality and protection, security and intelligence machine learning and predictmodels to provide decision recommendations, and "integrated data and AI platform" as a comprehensive data management solution that enables data gathering, analysis, and insights. The will government performance, citizen satisfaction, and enable more responsive and efficient government services, data sharing across state agencies emergency operations.

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https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=726&year=2026