AB 1737

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law requires any state agency, board, or commission that directly or by contract collects demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to use separate collection categories and tabulations for each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Hawaiian, Guamanian, Samoan, Laotian, and Cambodian. This bill would require specified state agencies to use additional separate collection categories and tabulations for other major Asian groups and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islander groups, including Bangladeshi, Fijian, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, Thai, and Tongan. This bill would also require that these specified state agencies update their data collection categories to match those used by the United States Census Bureau. This bill would further require a state agency, board, or commission that directly or by contract collects demographic data, include data on specified collection categories and tabulations in any demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of Californians that it publishes or releases on or after July 1, 2011. This bill would further require a state agency, board, or commission to make the collected data available to the public, in accordance with state and federal law, except for personal identifying information, which shall be deemed confidential.