STAND. COM. REP. NO.
I ST/
Honolulu, Hawaii
APR 0 2 2025
RE: S.C.R. No. 135
S. D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2025
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Government Operations, to which was
referred S.C.R. No. 135 entitled:
"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS TO
PARTNER WITH THE OFFICE OF WELLNESS AND RESILIENCE FOR DATA
SHARING AGREEMENTS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge all state
departments to partner with the Office of Wellness and Resilience
for data sharing agreements.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health, Senior Advisor for Mental Health
and the Justice System, Office of Wellness and Resilience, Office
of Enterprise Technology Services, Hawai‘i Youth Services Network,
and one individual.
Your Committee finds that the Office of Wellness and
Resilience was established to support and implement a statewide
trauma-informed care framework by addressing the various barriers
that impact the physical, social, and emotional well-being of all
people in the State; building wellness and resilience through
trauma-informed, strengths-based strategies; and supporting
agencies in their efforts to address trauma-informed care and move
toward a collaborative, shared purpose of collective system
reform. In December 2024, the Office of Wellness and Resilience
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launched the Quality of Life and Well-Being Dashboard to fulfill
one of its statutory mandates to create a social determinants of
health electronic dashboard that identifies a baseline of needs
and concerns that impede high quality-of-life outcomes. The
dashboard represents the largest survey of health and well-being
in the State to date and will allow the Office of Wellness and
Resilience to examine community needs through a data-driven lens,
leading to the development of effective, evidence-based, and
trauma-informed strategies. Your Committee finds, however, that
many state datasets remain siloed within individual departments
using different data collection methodologies, making it difficult
for the Office of Wellness and Resilience to navigate and perform
cross-departmental analyses. This measure will facilitate data-
sharing between the Office of Wellness and Resilience and state
departments, allowing the Office to integrate data from multiple
sources and provide community members and policymakers with a
comprehensive understanding of community challenges that would not
be apparent when data is analyzed in isolation.
Your Committee acknowledges the concerns raised in testimony
that the breadth of this measure and its lack of specificity may
lead to privacy risks, harm consumers, and overburden state
departments unequipped with sufficient infrastructure to securely
and efficiently participate in data sharing. Therefore, this
measure needs to be amended to address these issues by
establishing a balance between data accessibility for improved
public services and safeguarding privacy protections.
Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Specifying that state departments are urged to partner
with the Office of Wellness and Resilience for secure
and appropriate data sharing agreements that protect the
privacy and confidentiality of residents;
(2) Inserting language urging the Office of Wellness and
Resilience to adhere to strict data governance protocols
while partnering with state departments to seek
deidentified, aggregated, anonymized data to protect
individual privacy while effectively addressing
community needs;
(3) Inserting language clarifying legislative intent;
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(4) 7\mending its title accordingly; and
(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Government Operations that is attached to this
report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of
S.C.R. No. 135, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in
the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 135, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on
behalf of the members of the
Committee on Government
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 The Senate
Thirty-Third Legislature
State of Hawai‘i
Record of Votes
Committee on Government Operations
GVO
Bill / Resolution No.:* Committee Referral: Date:
SCP> GVO 3’/a7/a5
The Committee is reconsidering its previous decision on this measure.
If so, then the previous decision was to: ___________________________________
The Recommendation is:
Pass, unamended Pass, with amendments __ Hold __ Recommit
2312 2311 2310 2313
Members Aye Aye (WR) Nay Excused
MCKELVEY, Angus L.K. (C)
GABBARD, Mike (VC)
MORIWAKI, Sharon Y.
SAN BUENAVENTURA, Joy A.
FEVELLA, Kurt
TOTAL S' 1
Recommendation: v <
1^ Adopted __ Not Adopted
Chair’s o^e^^e^e^s^Signatur^^
DistributionrVJ Original Yellow Pink Goldenrod
File with Committee Report Clerk's Office Drafting Agency Committee File Copy
*Only one measure per Record of Votes
Revised; 12/09/24