The Chief Data Officer, along with individual agency data officers, is required to biannually update the state data plan, which covers open data and creates data standards for agencies. The plan also contains 12 principles and accompanying practices that all agencies should adopt to improve their management, use, sharing, and analysis of data. A 2018 law defines open, public, private, and high value data to guide development of the state data plan.  In addition, a 2019 law recommends: 1) establishing a coordinated governance structure for cross-agency data sharing, and 2) implementing cross-agency data-sharing agreements that are more flexible and durable. Building on this report, Connecticut released a Data-Sharing Playbook and developed an enterprise memorandum of understanding to help agencies share data safely, securely, and ethically.