Laws

Hawaii is without a Law but with Relevant/Related Laws, Bills, or Advocacy Activities.

In 2023, Hawaii adopted a law establishing a task force to assess demographic data collection by state agencies. It notes, in particular, the need to separate data for Asian American and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander ethnic groups.

The law follows a report from the HI Budget and Policy Center and a Honolulu city council resolution.

Some state education entities have been collecting disaggregated data for several years prior to this new policy. For example:

• “All state data collection processes, reporting requirements, and business rules [for the State Board for Career and Technical Education] shall support the collection of student-level data to include data that is disaggregated specifically for Hawaii’s population, including but not limited to disaggregated data for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, of industry-recognized credential attainment.” 304A-304
• “The Department of Education shall implement a comprehensive system of educational accountability . . . include performance indicators related to: Student discipline, seclusion, and restraint information, in total and by unduplicated counts, disaggregated by subgroups consisting of race, including by Asian subgroup; ethnicity; national origin; gender; sex” 302A-1004

Bills

An earlier version of the 2023 bill (SB 811) would have required additional data collection categories for Asian and Pacific Islander groups.

Other

The state Department of Health collected disaggregated data during the pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7 037a1.htm.