§315 Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building

Summary

Create an Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building to study and recommend ways to increase use of Federal data for evidence. The Chief Statistician must be the chair. The Director, or someone the Director names, must appoint members: one agency Chief Information Officer, one Chief Privacy Officer, one Chief Performance Officer, three Chief Data Officers, three Evaluation Officers, three members of the Interagency Council for Statistical Policy, and at least 10 representatives from state and local governments and nongovernmental groups with expertise in data policy, privacy, technology, transparency, evaluation, and research. Among those 10+ members, at least one must have expertise in transparency policy, one in privacy policy, one in statistical data use, one in information management, one in information technology, and one must be from the research and evaluation community. Members serve two-year terms, fill vacancies only for the remainder of the term, and serve without pay. The committee must end no later than two years after its first meeting. The committee must help the Director carry out duties under part D of subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44. It must review and recommend ways to make data sharing easier, enable linking data, and develop privacy-enhancing techniques. It must review how agencies coordinate data sharing or availability for evidence building. The committee must send an annual report of its activities and findings to the Director and make that report public.