Establish DATA Division.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 917

Short Title: Establish DATA Division. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Cervania, Howard, and Logan (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
April 14, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE DATA ANALYTICS, TRANSPARENCY, AND 2
ACCOUNTABILITY DIVISION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. Chapter 143E of the General Statutes, Article 7C of Chapter 120 of the 5
General Statutes, and G.S. 120-32(1)j., 120 -79(c), 120 -131.1(a1), and 143 -49(16), as those 6
statutes existed immediately before repeal, are reenacted. 7
SECTION 2. G.S. 63A-23 reads as rewritten: 8
"§ 63A-23. Annual reports. 9
The Authority shall, promptly following the close of each fiscal year, submit an annual 10
written report of its activities for the preceding year to the Governor, the General Assembly, and 11
the Local Government Commission. Each report shall be accompanied by an audit of its books 12
and accounts, as well as quarterly and annual financial statements. The audit shall be conducted 13
by the State Auditor. The costs of all audits shall be paid from funds of the Authority. 14
As part of the report, the Authority shall include the following performance measures of the 15
private sector jobs within the Global TransPark: 16
(1) The number, type, and wage level of jobs created or retained. 17
(2) The actual full -time equivalent jobs employed, as wel l as the median and 18
average salaries for those jobs. 19
The Authority shall submit its annual report to the General Assembly to both the Joint 20
Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations. Operations and the Data Ana lytics, 21
Transparency, and Accountabili ty Division. The Authority shall also submit any information 22
about the Authority's activities that is requested by the Commission. 23
The Authority shall also provide a copy of its annual report on its public Web site." 24
SECTION 3. G.S. 90-414.5(b) reads as rewritten: 25
"(b) At the written request of the Director of the Fiscal Research, Legislative Drafting, or 26
Legislative Analysis Analysis, or Data Analytics, Transparency, and Accountability Division of 27
the General Assembly for an aggregate analysis of the dat a and information disclosed through 28
the HIE Network, the Authority shall provide the professional staff of these Divisions with the 29
aggregated analysis responsive to the Director's request. Prior to providing the Director or 30
General Assembly's staff with a ny aggregate data or information submitted through the HIE 31
Network or with any analysis of this aggregate data or information, the Authority shall redact 32
any personal identifying information in a manner consistent with the standards specified for 33
de-identification of health information under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, 45 C.F.R. § 164.514, as 34
amended." 35
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SECTION 4. G.S. 120-32.01 reads as rewritten: 1
"§ 120-32.01. Information to be supplied. 2
(a) Every State department, State agency, or State institution shall furnish the Legislative 3
Services Office and the Legislative Analysis, Fiscal Research, Data Analytics, Transparency, and 4
Accountability, and Legislative Drafting Divisions any information or records requested by them 5
and access to any facilities and personne l requested by them. Except when accessibility is 6
prohibited by a federal statute, federal regulation, or State statute, every State department, State 7
agency, or State institution shall give the Legislative Services Office and these divisions access 8
to any database or stored information maintained by computer, telecommunications, or other 9
electronic data processing equipment, whether stored on tape, disk, or otherwise, and regardless 10
of the medium for storage or transmission. 11
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, access to the BEACON/HR payroll 12
system by the Legislative Analysis and Legislative Drafting Divisions shall only be through the 13
Fiscal Research Division.Division and access to the system by the Data Analytics, Transparency, 14
and Accountability Division shall only be through the Division Director and two employees of 15
the Division designated by the Division Director. 16
…." 17
SECTION 5. G.S. 126-85(c) reads as rewritten: 18
"(c) The protections of this Article shall include State employees who report any activity 19
described in G.S. 126-84 (i) to the State Auditor as authorized by G.S. 147-64.6B, (ii) to the Joint 20
Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations as authorized by G.S. 120-76, or 21
G.S. 120-76, (iii) to the Data Analytics, Transparency, and Accountability Division as authorized 22
by G.S. 120-36.12(10), or (iv) to a legislative committee as required by G.S. 120-19." 23
SECTION 6. G.S. 143-341.2(a) reads as rewritten: 24
"(a) Duties of the Department of Administration. – The Department of Administration 25
shall have the following powers and duties: 26
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(7) Reporting. – The Department of Administration shall make the following 28
reports: 29
a. No later than April 1, 2023, and every five years thereafter, the 30
Department shall report the following to the Joint Legislative 31
Commission on Governmental Operations and Joint Legislative 32
Oversight Committee on Capital Improvements, Joint Legislative 33
Oversight Committee on General Government, Data Analytics, 34
Transparency, and Accountability Division, and Fiscal Research 35
Division: 36
1. The plan developed pursuant to subdivision (1) of this 37
subsection. 38
2. A summary of the performance measurement procedures 39
developed pursuant to subdivision (2) of this subsection. 40
b. If any State agency fails to submit the information required by 41
subdivision (b)(1) of this section, the Department shall report the 42
failure to the chairs of the Joint Legislative Commission on 43
Governmental Operations, the chairs of the Joint Legislative Oversight 44
Committee on Capital Improvements, the chairs of the Joint 45
Legislative Data Analytics, Transparency, and Accountability 46
Oversight Committee, and the chairs of the Joint Legislative Oversight 47
Committee on General Government within 30 days. 48
c. No later than April 1, 2024, and each year thereafter, the Department 49
shall report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental 50
Operations, Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Capital 51
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Improvements, Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on General 1
Government, Data Analytics, Transparency, and Accountability 2
Division, and Fiscal Research Division on the State's portfolio of real 3
property. This report shall include at least the following information: 4
…." 5
SECTION 7. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the General Assembly 6
the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) for the 2025 -2026 fiscal year in recurring funds for 7
the purpose of reenacting and operating the Data Analytics, Transparenc y, and Accountability 8
Division, as reestablished in this act. 9
SECTION 8. The Revisor of Statutes shall replace the phrase "Program Evaluation 10
Division" with the phrase "Data Analytics, Transparency, and Accountability Division" in the 11
General Statutes wherever it appears. 12
SECTION 9. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025, and Section 6 of this act 13
applies to reports due on or after that date. 14