Sec. 13. Interagency working group on data collection
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Not later 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Deputy Secretary for Native Nations shall establish a working group, to be known as the Interagency Working Group on Data Collection for Native Populations (referred to in this section as the Working Group ). The purposes of the Working Group are to develop and improve systems and methodologies for the collection of accurate and disaggregated data for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian populations.
The Deputy Secretary for Native Nations shall serve as the Chairperson of the Working Group. After engaging in Tribal consultation, the Deputy Secretary for Native Nations, in collaboration with the Director of the Bureau of the Census, shall appoint the members of the Working Group in accordance with subparagraph (B). In appointing members of the Working Group under subparagraph (A), the Deputy Secretary for Native Nations, in collaboration with the Director of the Bureau of the Census, shall include— Tribal leaders representing each of the 12 regions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs;
Tribal data experts; representatives of urban Indian organizations; representatives of Native Hawaiian organizations; and other members, as the Deputy Secretary determines to be necessary. The Working Group shall meet at the call of the Chairperson. The duties of the Working Group shall be the following: Provide a public report at least every 2 years, and more often if the Working Group decides it is necessary, which shall be published on a publicly available website established by the Working Group, on the following:
How to improve the quality and accuracy of data relied on by Federal agencies regarding American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian populations, including how to achieve appropriate disaggregation from other populations. Making recommendations to develop and improve systems and methodologies that Federal agencies can replicate for the collection of accurate data on the populations referred to in subparagraph (A). How to protect and uphold Tribal data sovereignty in the collection and use of the data described in subparagraph (B).
To receive input from Indian tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations, Native Hawaiian organizations, and Federal agencies, on an ongoing basis, about instances in which the accuracy and quality of the data described in paragraph (1)(B) requires improvement, to research how to achieve those improvements, and to make recommendations based on the findings of that research. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Chairperson of the Working Group shall submit an initial report to the Committees on the Budget, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Indian Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on the Budget, the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States of the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.
The Deputy Secretary for Native Nations, in collaboration with the Director of the Bureau of the Census, shall ensure that the Working Group engages in robust Tribal consultation with respect to the work of the Working Group. The Working Group shall conduct all its work respect for Tribal data sovereignty. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.