Bill to Disaggregate Asian American, Pacific Islander Data Passes New York Assembly
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/bill-disaggregate-asian-american-pacific-islander-data-passes-new-york-n775556
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Controversy has followed some previous efforts elsewhere to pass measures legislating data disaggregation. California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed a bill into law in September requiring that its state Department of Public Health break down data collected by ethnicity or ancestry for Native Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Islander groups.But Brown vetoed similar legislation in 2015, writing at the time that “dividing people into ethnic or other subcategories may yield more information, but not necessarily greater wisdom about what actions should follow."
Niou’s bill requires state agencies to collect data for Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, Nepalese, Burmese, Tibetan, and Thai.
Pacific Islander groups covered include Hawaiian, Guamanian, Samoan, Fijian, and Tongan.
“Government resources should be used efficiently to help those who need it the most,” Niou said. “Better data means better service for our communities.”
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