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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut SB 384 redefines executive branch agencies for state data governance rules starting July 2026
Last action · April 30, 2026: House Calendar Number 537
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What This Bill Proposed
This bill redefines what qualifies as an "executive branch agency" for state data management standards, expanding coverage to broader departments while excluding higher education systems and specific constitutional offices, effective July 1, 2026.
Determines which state entities must appoint data officers, inventory high-value data, and comply with state data sharing plans, shifting compliance duties across state government.
- State data governance in Connecticut is overseen centrally to coordinate agency information technology initiatives, public data access, and data sharing policies. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Executive branch agencies
Agencies falling under the updated definition must comply with data management standards, open data access plans, and high-value data inventories.
State system of higher education
Constituent units of higher education are explicitly excluded from the definition of executive branch agency for these data governance rules.
Key Facts
- The bill amends Section 4-67o of the general statutes, changing the definition of "executive branch agency" effective July 1, 2026.
- The updated definition excludes the constituent units of the state system of higher education and the offices of the Secretary of the State, Comptroller, Attorney General, and Treasurer.
- "Data" is newly defined to mean the final version of statistical or factual information in non-narrative form regularly created or maintained by or for an executive branch agency.
- "High value data" is defined as data determined by the department head to be critical to operations, capable of increasing accountability, or meeting public demand and reporting requirements.
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- "Open data" is defined as data that is freely available in convenient, modifiable, automated machine-processing formats without use restrictions.
- "Protected data" includes data whose disclosure would violate laws, endanger public safety, hinder government operations, or impose an undue administrative burden.
- The Office of Fiscal Analysis notes that the bill has no state or municipal fiscal impact and requires no additional resources to implement.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · passed the Senate · on the House floor.
Procedural history
13 actions- Apr 30, 2026HouseHouse Calendar Number 537
- Apr 30, 2026HouseFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
- Apr 29, 2026HouseRules Suspended, Transmitted to the House
- Apr 29, 2026SenateFloorSenate Passed
- Mar 23, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 131
- Mar 23, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 104
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- Mar 23, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Mar 23, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 16, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/23/26 12:00 PM
- Mar 12, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 11, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Feb 27, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/04
- Feb 26, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections
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Refinement of State Data Governance Scope
The legislation recalibrates which state entities are bound by the chief data officer's data management plans by adjusting statutory exclusions.
Connected Entities
Sources
cga.ct.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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