Informing the Legislature that on June 25, 2025, the Governor signed the following bill into law: SB1491 SD1 HD1 CD1 (ACT 221).

This bill (SB1491, enacted as ACT 221) expands Hawaii's statewide longitudinal data system to include the Department of Taxation and Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. It requires these agencies to share anonymized tax and business data with the system, specifically to include self-employed workers' information in workforce analysis. This update aims to make workforce data more complete by adding tax filings from self-employed individuals, which were previously missing. The law mandates that all shared data must comply with federal privacy laws (like FERPA) and be aggregated or anonymized to protect individual confidentiality.