§315 Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building

Summary

Create an Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building to review federal data and recommend ways to use it for evidence building. The Chief Statistician of the United States will be the Chair. The Director will appoint other members: one agency Chief Information Officer, one Chief Privacy Officer, one Chief Performance Officer, three agency Chief Data Officers, three agency Evaluation Officers, three members from the Interagency Council for Statistical Policy, and at least 10 representatives from state or local governments and nongovernmental groups with expertise in data policy, privacy, technology, transparency, evaluation and research methods. Among those 10, at least one must have expertise in each of: transparency policy, privacy policy, statistical data use, information management, information technology, and research and evaluation. Members serve 2-year terms, fill vacancies only for the rest of a term, and are unpaid. The committee must help the Director carry out duties under part D of subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44, make recommendations on data sharing, linking, and privacy-enhancing methods, and review how agencies coordinate data for evidence building. It must send and publish an annual report. The committee ends no later than two years after its first meeting.