Open Data Legislation

Detailed Existing Open Data Legislation

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SessionBill NumberTitleOrganizationODI ReviewBill TextSourceSponsorsPast LegislationRelated LegislationIntroducedLast ActivityComments
2013HB632Relating To Open DataHawaiiHawaii-2013-HB632Hawaii-2013-HB632Rep. Clift Tsuji, Rep. Ken Ito, Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro, Rep. Calvin K.Y. Say, Gregg Takayama9-Jul-2013signed into law
98thHB1040Open Operating Standards ActIllinoisIllinois-98th-HB1040Illinois-98th-HB1040Rep. Michaell W. Tryon, Rep. Pamela J. Althoff7-Mar-2014signed into law
2014SB644State Government - Open Data Policy - Council on Open DataMarylandMaryland-2014-SB644Maryland-2014-SB644Rep. William C Ferguson IV8-Apr-2014signed into law
2012HB418Relative to the use of open source software and open data formats by state agencies and relative to the adoption of a statewide information policy regarding open government data standardsNew HampshireNew Hampshire-2012-HB418New Hampshire-2012-HB418Rep. Calvin D. Pratt, Rep. George A Lambert12-Mar-2012signed into law
GA132HB3Improve transparency of public dataOhio/blog/legislation-review/2018-01-25-ohio-hb3-legislation-reviewOhio-GA132-HB3Ohio-GA132-HB3Rep. Mike Duffey, Rep. Christina HaganGA130-HB321, GA130-HB323, GA130-HB175, GA131-HB46GA132-HB401-Feb-201713-Dec-2017Passed House Finance Committee Vote. Good outline of DataOhio board responsibilities, but missing details on the definition, e.g. Ability to export records in TXT format with recommended metadata headers, recommend accounting standards such as utilizing the state accounting system and base common fields, and metadata at a minimum define the field headers for the accounting standard fields.
GA132HB40Establish State Government Expenditure DatabaseOhio/blog/legislation-review/2018-03-13-ohio-hb40-legislation-reviewOhio-GA132-HB40Ohio-GA132-HB40GA130-HB321, GA130-HB323, GA130-HB175, GA131-HB46GA132-HB36-Feb-20176-Feb-2017Introduced to the Finance Committee
113th CongressS.994Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 or the DATA ActUnited States/blog/legislation-review/2018-03-09-united-states-legislation-reviewUnited States-113th Congress-S.994United States-113th Congress-S.994Sen. Mark Warner21-May-20139-May-2014signed into law
2013SB283Availability of Public Information AmendmentsUtahUtah-2013-SB283Utah-2013-SB28322-Mar-2013signed into law
2014SB70State Data Portal AmendmentsUtahUtah-2014-SB70Utah-2014-SB70Rep. Deidre M. Henderson27-Mar-2014signed into law